Comment Re:OH, FFS... (Score 5, Insightful) 75
It's not just those who are colourblind who have trouble telling colours apart. If you're playing a boardgame in a dimly lit pub then the colours of the pieces can sometimes be really hard to tell apart. Examples I've seen in games are Black vs Brown vs Dark Purple or Yellow vs Bare Wood. What might be easy to distinguish in an designer's office isn't always the case where you actually sit down to play the game.
Then there's the problem of the clumsy gamer, finding dark dice or meeples on a dark carpet in a pub isn't always so easy. There's a guy in my gaming group who I will lend glow-in-the-dark dice to because he is the most likely to drop things on the floor.
Ingenious is another good example game where there are icons for each colour.
Don't think of it as being politically correct, but rather as enabling the most people to play your game without significantly altering the game mechanics.
Couldn't agree more.