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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8661747" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Agreed. And even in a super-gritty setting, it might not really be necessary to go into that much detail. It's not like this is a book where you need to spell out everything for the reader. It's a game supplement designed to give the reader the tools needed to make a character or run a game. You want to have slavery, and you want to say the slaves are treated horribly, that's fine, but, well, I don't know how much detail Exalted gave, but they probably gave much more detail than is necessary to be inspiration for a game.I'll go back to D&D for a sec. Throughout all of the editions (maybe not in 4e, since IIRC they were kind of tree-monsters, but I don't know), dryads have had the ability to charm people. Back in 1e it specified they charmed men, although by 2e the ability was more equal-opportunity. They never said what would happen to the charmed targets, but c'mon, it's sex--or rather, rape, since the victim was being mind-controlled (even if I doubt that Gygax thought of it that way). But the various MMs put out over the decades didn't feel a need to spell that out. If you, the DM, wanted to go that far and say that dryads are rapists, you can. If you wanted to say that the charmed victims are merely guards and servants because dryads won't have sex with their charmed targets, you can do that as well. But if the MMs flat-out said "dryads have sex with their charmed targets," then that actually takes away some of your ability to use dryads however you wish.</blockquote>

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