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That this convo has been derailed by a debate on slavery for 175+ replies of its 226 total replies is a big warning sign that slavery is controversial. Shocker! And if that's happening in a place full of grognards who know Dark Sun and love it, then the reaction among younger fans without the...

And ya don't think Wizards might change in response to feedback to TOME OF FOES? And there's a pretty big difference between some members of two races in one setting using slaves and every major city using slaves? You can use the Forgotten Realms without invoking slavery at all but you can't...

Spend a lot of time lurking around Middle and High Schools?

Grimdark reinterpretations only work if you're doing a reinterpretation. Ya can't reinterpret something the audience doesn't know. You can do a dark Batman or Superman film because everyone knows Batman and Superman. You can do the WITCHER as dark fairy tales because everyone knows fairy tales...

A Google search shows two of the authors work for Paizo now. Could the high price also be related to Pathfinder fans hunting it down?

"If we try and make D&D sanitized of all controversial topics, the game cannot exist." That's true. But individual controversial topics should still be something you opt into. They shouldn't be a major focus of a product. Slavery is a huge trigger. Right up atop the list with colonialism, sexual...

An episode from 1999? Have you watched any TV from this century? Man, I haven't seen anyone who loves saying "cancelled" so much that wasn't a Fox News host. And Family Guy loves offending people. That's what it do. Wizards doesn't want to offend. It's a family game that's owned by Hasbro...

Kay. Greyhawk. Spelt proper like now Mentioned this in my post earlier: D&D 5E - Revising Classic Settings Never played Greyhawk. Wanted to see what the big deal was. Bought the folio and World of Greyhawk from dmsguild.com Little put off they were practically the same. Just more gods in the...

Is this an actual problem where you have seen your players use cantrips too many times in you game and is disruptive? Or a theoretical problem where you read the rules and it seems odd? First thing ya should do is ban the warlock. It replies entirely on eldritch blast. It's a magical archer...

Why? That's how it is on Earth. Don't mean it's how it is on Krynn. Specially when humans only existed for 9350 years, and have been moving about the continent most of that time.

To summarize. Your argument is that it's okay to have slavery now because some show from twenty-five years ago had slavery and no one got upset. That it's okay to make African Americans uncomfortable now because of a show made back in the day, when having opening gay characters on TV was still...

What the heck are you going on about, bro? Nobody is cancelling anything. Or saying that you can’t ever have pirates or slaves again. No one’s gonna to take your rapey TV shows away from you. But if Wizards is going to make a campaign setting designed to appeal to the largest possible audience...

Naw... But if there was only going to be THREE classic TV shows remade (joining five other TV show) , would the show about sexual slavery be the first choice? Even Law & Order didn't start with SVU. That came after ten years of regular L&O. (And the idea of doing a show heavily focusing on...

Theros was set in ancient Greece/ Rome and it managed to ignore slavery. Because it's a fantasy game and not historical fiction. Added emphasis. Because you're correct. A "no slavery" rule would be unenforceable. DMs and players can do whatever they want. But that don't mean Wizards gotta do a...

If it's a complete reboot and not a continuation how would that work? Everyone freaked out over that happening in BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and that was just fine. For a couple seasons at least.

The prob is that having slavery encourages the players to be "oppressions tourists." It turns real people's pain into their characters tragic emo backstory. And brings an ugly thing people might want to escape into their DnD. It comes up a couple times in the BlackAF panel in D&D Live 2020

Don't think we need two or three slightly different types of dragon-folk. And one whose one unique thing is dying in weird ways is much less cool than breathing fire and lightening. And the degenerate innately evil race is rather racist. Wizards be avoiding it now. Moon alignment never worked...

I don't see how Tasslehoff having or lacking a penis is a fundamental aspect of the character. Its not like Tas or Flint got any action during the main novels.

True. It would be hard to do Dark Sun without the slavery. It might need more of an overhaul than I thought. They might just skip it for that reason.

Well... it's not 1984 anymore. You can't have a group of 12 heroes and only have three of them be women and all of them effectively white.