Legends Untold Board Game Review

We know that Hadrian (d. 709), the abbot of St Peter’s and St Paul’s at Canterbury was African.

If the Roman Army was ever there, then people from Africa, the Middle East and, of course, Southern Europe were there. Same is true if the Roman Catholic Church was there.

Language describing race is a fairly recent thing, historically speaking. For example, Euclid was African, but he was Greek because he was from Alexandria which was a Greek city located in Egypt. So was he black, white, middle eastern? There were no words for that. He was just Greek. Sometimes you might get descriptions of people as being "fair" or "swarthy." Just because there aren't any records from the time that specifically describe people using the race terms that we use, don't assume they weren't there.

So the historical argument doesn't hold water. And as Michael said "if elves, goblins and giant spiders are being hand-waved into this "fact-based" setting, why can’t a player choose to be a non-white human? "

I think I would like to play this sometime. Although right now I am in a mood, where I feel like none of these huge dungeon crawl games does anything better, more interesting, or more fun than HeroQuest. I’m just waiting for that mood to pass.

I always think of it in terms of what it means to kids. When Space Cadets: Away Missions came out we got messages from people saying that they were so happy that it included two female characters so both their daughters could play. But then we got a message from a dad asking us if we could have a Black female character in the expansion for his daughter. That broke my heart.

We had tried to convince the publisher to make the character portraits cards that could be placed on any board, and to include a mix of genders and races. But the idea for shot down.