Recent content by Phantom_Miria

I don't really think that's kind of a problem, actually. You can't control what players will ultimately do when they run their games, whether they'll play as the good guys and follow the "intended" reading of the game, or use homebrew instead of official material, or just decide to play as...

This. I feel this is one of the best takes I've seen in this thread so far. It sums up well enough the problem people have with the idea of a Dark Sun book that would be mishandled or possibly excessively sanitized for corporate or otherwise spurious reasons, said in a way that's possibly better...

I think that's pretty unlikely. It's more likely in my opinion that a half-arsed Dark Sun book will just result in players laying the blame on, well, a lame modern adaptation being lame, and figuring out that the "legendary" Dark Sun stuff is just all in the older editions. Worst case scenario...

Thread died down a little, so I guess I'll say some stuff I've been thinking about. At some point early in the thread someone said something that I thought was really true: the release of new Dark Sun stuff can't actually take anything away from the old stuff, when you really think about it...

Yes and no. "Woke" is one of those internet buzzwords that mean everything and nothing depending on whoever is using it, and thus it's borderline useless in a conversation except sending different meanings to people who understand what that word means differently. So, Dark Sun was obviously...

I don't recall 4e Dark Sun giving everyone pants. The art probably never hit as hard as Brom's stuff but, well, nothing does and nothing will, and there's still plenty of muscled barbarians and alluring sorcerers in 4e art for Dark Sun as far as I know.

Well, you're not saying stuff should be sanitized, but when a large number of people comes together and keep making a problem out of things that are ultimately up to how people like to play games themselves and how creatives like to make the settings they want, and they frame it in such a way...

On the other hand, I really don't think that stigmatizing dark fiction will do any good in countering the current dystopian trends. In fact, if anything sanitizing fiction and making it impossible for people to write and do what they want is pretty on brand for the dystopian era, so maybe if you...