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<blockquote data-quote="Libramarian" data-source="post: 5929455" data-attributes="member: 6688858"><p>I don't think that those who would like to see a lot of cheesecake art and the implication of conquest-based sexuality really have a leg to stand on, because D&D have never been about that at all in terms of its tropes and typical adventure content. It's not incompatible with what the game is to depict men and women as being equal in adventuring ability.</p><p></p><p>However I think it's a fair argument to say that D&D is inherently unsuitable for children. Typical D&D adventures feature horrible monsters with a taste for human flesh, the killing of intelligent beings, stealing others' property, and often taking prisoners and threatening or even torturing them for information. And then when you think about the cognitive demands on the game in terms of reading and mathematics, and organizational ability, I can't see it being a suitable game for children unless fundamental changes were made. I don't support making those changes, so I don't think ensuring the art is suitable for children would have any benefit.</p><p></p><p>If I wanted to introduce pre-teen children to D&D, I first of all would be running the game myself, and I would plan a specific sort of adventure (PCs and monsters are knocked out rather than killed; PCs are working for the good of some group of people rather than their own wealth and power). I would never just give them the books and tell them to run their own game, so it wouldn't really matter whether I felt that some pieces of art were unsuitable for them.</p><p></p><p>D&D doesn't need to hook children to have a future audience, it can wait until they're teenagers. I probably wouldn't mind if the art were aimed at older teenagers, because this is a silly game that I play partly in the spirit of my teenage self, let's be honest here.</p><p></p><p>But for example, I totally want the sort of art that gives children nightmares. Not that I want to give children nightmares, but I don't want the artists to avoid that in order to be inclusive towards children.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Libramarian, post: 5929455, member: 6688858"] I don't think that those who would like to see a lot of cheesecake art and the implication of conquest-based sexuality really have a leg to stand on, because D&D have never been about that at all in terms of its tropes and typical adventure content. It's not incompatible with what the game is to depict men and women as being equal in adventuring ability. However I think it's a fair argument to say that D&D is inherently unsuitable for children. Typical D&D adventures feature horrible monsters with a taste for human flesh, the killing of intelligent beings, stealing others' property, and often taking prisoners and threatening or even torturing them for information. And then when you think about the cognitive demands on the game in terms of reading and mathematics, and organizational ability, I can't see it being a suitable game for children unless fundamental changes were made. I don't support making those changes, so I don't think ensuring the art is suitable for children would have any benefit. If I wanted to introduce pre-teen children to D&D, I first of all would be running the game myself, and I would plan a specific sort of adventure (PCs and monsters are knocked out rather than killed; PCs are working for the good of some group of people rather than their own wealth and power). I would never just give them the books and tell them to run their own game, so it wouldn't really matter whether I felt that some pieces of art were unsuitable for them. D&D doesn't need to hook children to have a future audience, it can wait until they're teenagers. I probably wouldn't mind if the art were aimed at older teenagers, because this is a silly game that I play partly in the spirit of my teenage self, let's be honest here. But for example, I totally want the sort of art that gives children nightmares. Not that I want to give children nightmares, but I don't want the artists to avoid that in order to be inclusive towards children. [/QUOTE]
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