Mick Price

Yes but I think homosexuals works better, although both suffer from the fact that neither group is actually inherently dangerous. I suppose using mutants as Jewish surrogates works because you could live and/or work with a Jew and not know it. So they idea that they need to be tracked and identified is more credible. You don't need to register black people to exclude them.

The Exiled Soldier. Pushed out of a homeland he risked his life defending by invaders. He's either too far away from his home or the people who control it would kill/enslave them. He could be an officer or noble or just another line-soldier, but either way his former employer can't pay him.

But that doesn't explain why non-mutant supers aren't hated. They aren't artificially separated by anyone. The reasons to fear mutants apply to them as well. Saying "don't waste your time trying to explain it" is a cop-out.

Yes but they don't understand real magicians and gods any more than they do mutants. I think the "sudden emergence at the worst possible time" explanation is better than just "people aren't logical.".

Mutants tend to manifest without warning during puberty often hurting people. Most superheroes don't emerge like that. What is confusing is why more mutants don't pretend to be results of radiation accidents etc. After all they keep their secret identities. This makes them a better metaphor for homosexuals than racial minorities. Not that homosexuals coming to is dangerous to their classmates, but they were treated like that. So not a perfect metaphor, but it's not a surprise when someone is black.

Is the world basically modern day plus secret magic people? And if so how do you explain the lack of effect of magic on the world?

Fiat money didn't help the distribution of wealth. It mostly redistributed it to governments who spent it on wars. The disruption in the economy was probably worse than taxes but better than just defaulting. Poor/middle class people always had credit options but because the loans were small and they had little collateral they had no good options. Pawn shops or equivalent basically. As society got richer in general and better at finance (literacy and numeracy became more common) the middle class and later the poor became worth lending to. Fractional reserve banking also redistributed money mostly to bankers not the less fortunate. A lot of people think that the premodern world was hampered by too little money but that can't happen. A lack of money means you have to charge less but so does everyone else. This means that the nominal/money GDP is less but the real/actual stuff GDP is the same. Note that fiat and paper money are not the same, you can print pieces of paper exchangable for gold coins or other money. If that is accepted it's functionally money. You have to be trusted to do this, you don't have to be the government. In some countries it helped if you weren't.

"Australia and India probably still gain their independence, " Australia gained hers in 1901 so I don't see that changing.

The Hungry Hill.

"Next: The Beast of the Green Tower" The Green Tower overlooks the town of Glade. Every dawn a humanoid Beast comes out of the door shouts threatens against any who would trespass in the tower, hunt any animals nearby, domestic or not, and deposits a jeweled dagger on a hand sized flat rock near the entrance. On the rock is written "To be taken by those who wish to spend the night. Capable of killing the Beast.". The town elders offer huge rewards to those who kill the beast. The dagger dissolves at dawn the next day if the owner hasn't spent the night in the tower. Many have tried to kill the Beast but all have ended up dead the next morning. Don't try and take the dagger and sell it either, the locals are very wise to that trick. The dagger is valuable but is not actually better against the beast, the STONE is of course, causing massive damage and spending the beast flying with each blow. If the beast is killed the dagger doesn't dissolve the next day and it's worth a small fortune. If however someone knocks on the door and asks to spend the night the Beast asks why he should allow it. If the person makes a good case for hospitality or offers decent payment the Beast agrees. If the character either takes the rock or is entertaining the Beast will be a good host a box full of money equal to the value of the domestic beasts he has eaten who is owed how much money for them. If the guest pays the owners the money the paper turns into a character reference. Seeing this , even if the viewer can't read it, makes people more trusting of the bearer leading them to consider them for jobs, confide in them and be skeptical of accusations against them. In game terms consider it about a +4 reputation (people who've seen the paper).

It's all to do with how they conduct themselves.

He's happy because he finally found a group of adventurers to kill his dad and share the treasure. And the one with lumps on the upper torso knows exactly how hard to scratch his chest (although she can't stratch had enough with her hands and has to use her boot.

"Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself." And Dwarf Resistence is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up."