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<blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 8026237" data-attributes="member: 15882"><p>I'm bringing this in from another thread because the censorship debate:</p><p></p><p>Once again, it's all very tricky. A lich necromancer King is pushing his territory into the neighboring countries. He's committing atrocities and taking slaves, forcing all who oppose him into work camps until they die just so he can raise them from the dead and add them to his army.</p><p></p><p>Undead Lich King is a pretty typical fantasy trope but It's a little too close to images of the Holocaust. No publisher would touch that with a 10-foot pole. So, how do you play the Necromancer King without offending anyone? Remove the work camps? Make it so the Necromancer isn't interested in expansion? Or is it fair to release an adventure with a foreword that communicates the nature of the adventure, the actual intentions of the adventure and a warning of what it <em>could </em>depict if your table isn't careful? I don't know the answer but it certainly limits what publishers can release for fear of backlash.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure that's actual censorship but it certainly takes certain content off the table. Why is the publisher allowed to choose the content I want if there are writers willing to write it? I mean, I get it - they need to be responsible, they have an image to maintain, they have their own ethics and they have their bottom line to worry about if people are going to raise a stink about something that might be offensive. Is there not a way to do it responsibly without censoring all the content?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TaranTheWanderer, post: 8026237, member: 15882"] I'm bringing this in from another thread because the censorship debate: Once again, it's all very tricky. A lich necromancer King is pushing his territory into the neighboring countries. He's committing atrocities and taking slaves, forcing all who oppose him into work camps until they die just so he can raise them from the dead and add them to his army. Undead Lich King is a pretty typical fantasy trope but It's a little too close to images of the Holocaust. No publisher would touch that with a 10-foot pole. So, how do you play the Necromancer King without offending anyone? Remove the work camps? Make it so the Necromancer isn't interested in expansion? Or is it fair to release an adventure with a foreword that communicates the nature of the adventure, the actual intentions of the adventure and a warning of what it [I]could [/I]depict if your table isn't careful? I don't know the answer but it certainly limits what publishers can release for fear of backlash. I'm not sure that's actual censorship but it certainly takes certain content off the table. Why is the publisher allowed to choose the content I want if there are writers willing to write it? I mean, I get it - they need to be responsible, they have an image to maintain, they have their own ethics and they have their bottom line to worry about if people are going to raise a stink about something that might be offensive. Is there not a way to do it responsibly without censoring all the content? [/QUOTE]
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