I just started a game using Power and Responsibility (a Lasers and Feelings super-hero hack) set in a city in Pennsylvania during WWII. One of the themes is marginalized peoples striving to protect a country which at this point in time isn't exactly grateful for their presence. The player characters right now include an African American with flight powers, a gay man in a committed relationship who can transform into a concrete werewolf form, and a mixed race woman who is a master chemist and has an affinity for bugs.

Now since race and sexual identity is a major part of this story...how would you handle the use of racial slurs? This has come up once, and I ended up replacing the offending word with the word ;nougat'--and everyone laughed, and we agreed that that would be the synonym for that phrase...do I continue trying to find similar, somewhat silly words to replace those slurs? I can't 'color blind' the world because the whole pitch is based upon people who want to serve their country but can't because of their civilian identities and decide to band together to protect its shores whether the public approves or not...does anyone have any other ideas on how to convey the harsher, nastier aspects of prejudice.....