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Game Preview: Loot N Run, or Desecrating Pyramids for Fun and Profit

Game Preview: Loot N Run, or Desecrating Pyramids for Fun and Profit
Board Game: Loot N Run
Explorers entering a pyramid is an adventure trope that appears over and over again in books, movies, and games, and now designer/publisher Christian Lemay of Masked Scorpion has taken his own crack at the trope in Loot N Run, a quick-playing press-your-luck game in which players try not to get caught awakening the guardians of the pyramid's treasure while looting, then subsequently running.

A sidenote: I can think of few characters or tropes in which people are essentially given a license to steal without being seen as doing something wrong. Sure, pirates steal (and plenty of games feature pirates doing this), but they're pirates and stealing goes with the job description, so it doesn't seem wrong. Explorers "find" treasures abandoned by others from long ago, or they "find" objects that are treasures now only because they're relics from ancient times, and while some may object that they're violating the sanctity of a tomb or temple, that's less of a concern if they're "finding" such things for their personal use instead of for profit. What am I overlooking here?

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