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Message: <blockquote data-quote="C. Baize" data-source="post: 3114527" data-attributes="member: 4571">*shrug* To each their own. I'm not particularly thin-skinned, and I wasn't necessarily offended (nor am I easily offended). But the tone of what I heard came across as I said in the previous post. As I said, though: take it for what it's worth. If the feedback has no value to you, then there you have it. If the feedback has value to you, then there you have it.Perhaps it wasn't your intent to further an ignorant stereotype, but whoever said, "Well what about the theme of a community of neo-Pagans threatening good honest folk? Would you put that in your campaign?" to which the other two people agreed, well.. that's what I mean by furthering an ignorant stereotype. (just listened to the portion again to make sure I didn't mis-hear or misunderstand what was said, that's word for word)I'm not trying to be a jerk, here, and I'm not looking for any apologies, or anything like that, this just happens to touch on a pet peeve of mine. I'm also not saying that the podcast is without value as a gaming resource. Just consider what it would sound like by substituting the term "neo-Pagan" with any other real-world religious (or for that matter racial) demographic. For instance, how would this have sounded? "Well what about the theme of a community of Mormons threatening good honest folk? Would you put that in your campaign?" and it being met with agreement.Or:"Well what about the theme of a community of Jews threatening good honest folk? Would you put that in your campaign?" and it being met with agreement.Or perhaps:"Well what about the theme of a community of Muslims threatening good honest folk? Would you put that in your campaign?" and it being met with agreement.Maybe:"Well what about the theme of a community of Sikhs threatening good honest folk? Would you put that in your campaign?" and it being met with agreement.Can you understand where the potentially marginalized demographic is still marginalized, regardless who it is?And sure, this comes to mind because it's folks of my persuasion mentioned. But the way it was put forth, it would have been someone else if not me, were any other demographic substituted.Again... take it for what it's worth.Words have impact and all we know of a person's beliefs is what we hear. Don't believe me? Ask Mel Gibson or the Pope. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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