D&D (2024) What older setting do you want to see next?

[Yaarel]

... or the nuTSR ouvre.

LOL! Deftly placed and richly deserved.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Probably the ones involving themes we as a society have collectively decided are unacceptable.

Like keeping slaves or committing genocide.

I know some people may find this controversial, but there are other games out there for folks like that. Maybe something in a nice FATAL, or the nuTSR ouvre.

I can think of literally dozens, maybe hundreds, of stories that include slavery and/or characters that believe in "racial purity", all of them cast in an appropriately negative light, that would be disallowed under that philosophy. If you're just talking about RPGs, I give you Dark Sun. Is that what you're talking about?

 

[glass]

It would certainly be helpful to know what kind of stories I'm not socially allowed to enjoy.

It is not a question of "allowed". Marginalised groups generally lack the power to allow or disallow anything, almost by definition. The questions is always "what do you want to do"; my answer is always "avoid harming said groups", but no external force is going to make your answer the same. Only your own conscience.

That said....

I can think of literally dozens, maybe hundreds, of stories that include slavery and/or characters that believe in "racial purity", all of them cast in an appropriately negative light, that would be disallowed under that philosophy.

What philosophy? Just because some publishers (mostly just Paizo AFAIK) have decided that they are done producing new products that deal with slavery (even amongst the bad guys), does not mean that everyone else is compelled to follow suit, and it certainly does not mean you are compelled to do so at your own table provided everyone's on board. Even Paizo will be quite happy to sell you the many slaver-themed adventures they have already published (AFAIK, they have not even retired them from PFS).

 

[eyeheartawk]

That leaves us with a question then, if they're going to defang the Scarlet Brotherhood, what sort of approved villainy will they replace it with?

Pineapple on pizza?

Ketchup on hot dogs?

This is what keeps me up at night, folks.

 

[Mind of tempest]

That leaves us with a question then, if they're going to defang the Scarlet Brotherhood, what sort of approved villainy will they replace it with?

Pineapple on pizza?

Ketchup on hot dogs?

This is what keeps me up at night, folks.

it is the evil paradox we can't show them doing evil but we also need evil so we have things to fight, it kinda makes creating stakes and conflicts hard.

 

[eyeheartawk]

it is the evil paradox we can't show them doing evil but we also need evil so we have things to fight, it kinda makes creating stakes and conflicts hard.

I mean, you can't convince me an adult man putting ketchup on a hot dog in public isn't evil.

 

[Remathilis]

I mean, you can't convince me an adult man putting ketchup on a hot dog in public isn't evil.

If ketchup on hot dogs is wrong, I don't want to be right.

This is my supervillain origin story, I guess.

 

[eyeheartawk]

If ketchup on hot dogs is wrong, I don't want to be right.

That sounds like something a Scarlet Brotherhood monk would say.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I mean, you can't convince me an adult man putting ketchup on a hot dog in public isn't evil.

a, it is not evil, b even if it was evil it is not the kind of evil where killing you and looting your stuff becomes reasonable.

 

[eyeheartawk]

a, it is not evil, b even if it was evil it is not the kind of evil where killing you and looting your stuff becomes reasonable.