My interest in starting a dnd campaign using Lorn Song of the Bachelor, aside from fun, is that it is possibly helpful for thinking through, perhaps, how colonialism operates on an everyday scale. There a both possibilities and limitations in the speculative fictions of rpgs, of course. This game will be set in a fantasy world, inspired by Southeast Asia but not an analogue of anything per se. Its speculative capacity is determined by the creative and improvisational style of those of us around the table. Thus, it might be an opportunity to work through the logics of colonialism. As Siew writes in the notes for