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How do you decide that someone is roleplaying too charismatically for their ability score?

Other. I'd say my role-play is influenced by the ability scores, but that might not be recognizable or acknowledged as valid by those that have well-defined ideas about what the stats mean. I mostly play D&D these days. In 5e, it's the mechanical effects that matter. D&D ability scores are so...

This thread has been going on for a long time and the conversation has evolved, but I haven't taken the opportunity to answer questions posed in the first post. Note that the questions are about what we do at our tables, not what publishers chose to include or exclude. Yes, I have eliminated...

I wouldn't say that was loss due to censorship but rather to editorial oversight. But I'd also say that wasn't a loss at all, regardless of marketablity.

I understand this position (although I disagree), and I appreciate the clarity with which it's expressed. My preference runs the other way. I don't care about setting fidelity, and if a new version of a setting doesn't integrate interesting, substantial changes, I don't see the point. (I also...

Thank you. The analogies are obfuscating communications, and the topic isn't so complicated that it can't be discussed directly.

Try it this way: First, they came for history. In the US, at least, they wrote taught an incomplete, sanitized, self-serving mess of half-truths and myths that marginalized minority voices and lives, that glorified colonialism, and that obsured atrocities. Then, they built a culture and...

Radiant Citadel is a recent publication inspired by a variety of real world cultures.

Thanks for providing a concrete example. I don't think this is as clear-cut as you indicate in your summary. Please note that the article you linked to itself contains links documenting a history of troublesome behavior, aside from the frog art. From what I see here, The Gaming Goat (business)...

My sentiments exactly! People are responding to posts in isolation rather than in the context of the entire conversation. That context is hard to follow in a thread like this.

@Faolyn literally just described her setting that included slavery. Who is saying that depicting slavery is never okay? It doesn't take much nuance to distinguish between an undead menace intent on the destruction of every living thing and a fantasy depicition of a society that systematically...

Okay. I don't see it, but I'm not going to argue the point. Nothing in those comments indicates to me that either poster had concern for Soth's victims, and there's no indication that WotC revised Soth's backstory because they wanted to protect a fictional woman and baby.

No one is concerned for the in-game victims. When there are decisions and discussions about inclusivity and representation, the concern is for the players and potential players (or perhaps I should say purchasers) of the game.

The toy line was released after I aged out of the toy phase of my youth and before I aged into the toy phase of my maturity, so I had to Google this one. So, yeah, envy. And, yeah, I am consoled by your loss.

Hard to say, as Magister's example didn't describe how the cannibal PC was played. I just suspect that it wasn't ritual cannibalism of the already dead but rather killing sentient creatures to make meat out of them. At least one of the movies that Vaalingrade referenced involved AFAIK...

You might be missing the murder and mutilation that accompanies the cannibalism.

Well put. And there is another explicit assertion that creators are not stepping away from a topic to please an audience but rather to avoid displeasing a loud but insignificant minority. And that the creators, some would suggest, want to include the controversial subject matter, but they're...

Good to hear. The only Chaosium-related uproar I was aware of the NFT thing a while back. I can only speculate, as I haven't followed any of WotC's statements about DL and I'm not familiar with the setting. I seriously doubt they made changes because the high-profile creators were afraid of...

Is Chaosium weathering a storm of controvery? Are the creators being maligned?

Iserith didn’t act out of fear either. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.