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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6593913" data-attributes="member: 6787650"><p>Please recall what I said: "I don't think rape is uniquely bad." The implication is not "I would be casual about rape incidents in my campaign," but "I would be reluctant to bring any number of horrible things into my campaign." In spite of the darkness of the D&D gameworld, I don't want my D&D night to be about bringing darkness into my home. I want hatred and evil to be <em>abstract</em> in my game, not concrete.</p><p></p><p>I was about to give an example of something that I wouldn't want at my table even if no one at my table has experienced it directly, but you know what? I don't want that kind of stuff in my mind, period. So just pretend I named something really horrific, and let's just both accept that no, we don't want that kind of stuff in the game either. Or at least I don't.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">While you <em>could</em> run such a game with D&D rules, I would probably prefer to run it under GURPS instead. My generalization about "what D&D is" wasn't intended as normative; I just meant that that is the niche I see D&D as being D&D's forte, at which it excels. Courtly intrigue and social interactions, not so much. 5E doesn't even have Reaction rolls any more, and it's done its best to eliminate all complexity and nuance from the skill list as well. (Plus, d20 systems are just generally bad at skill modelling, compared to bell-curved systems like GURPS.)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Well, he predates human (re-)colonization of the planet they're on. He's human, but he's from the original civilization that was there before Witchlight Marauders ate the most of the planet during the first Unhuman War. I think when he goes bad, it's going to be in terms of imposing his civilization's cultural norms and values on modern humans, and punishing them harshly for innocuous crimes like walking on stone. Anyway, he's about a thousand years old.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6593913, member: 6787650"] Please recall what I said: "I don't think rape is uniquely bad." The implication is not "I would be casual about rape incidents in my campaign," but "I would be reluctant to bring any number of horrible things into my campaign." In spite of the darkness of the D&D gameworld, I don't want my D&D night to be about bringing darkness into my home. I want hatred and evil to be [I]abstract[/I] in my game, not concrete. I was about to give an example of something that I wouldn't want at my table even if no one at my table has experienced it directly, but you know what? I don't want that kind of stuff in my mind, period. So just pretend I named something really horrific, and let's just both accept that no, we don't want that kind of stuff in the game either. Or at least I don't. [COLOR=#000000] While you [I]could[/I] run such a game with D&D rules, I would probably prefer to run it under GURPS instead. My generalization about "what D&D is" wasn't intended as normative; I just meant that that is the niche I see D&D as being D&D's forte, at which it excels. Courtly intrigue and social interactions, not so much. 5E doesn't even have Reaction rolls any more, and it's done its best to eliminate all complexity and nuance from the skill list as well. (Plus, d20 systems are just generally bad at skill modelling, compared to bell-curved systems like GURPS.) [/COLOR][COLOR=#000000] Well, he predates human (re-)colonization of the planet they're on. He's human, but he's from the original civilization that was there before Witchlight Marauders ate the most of the planet during the first Unhuman War. I think when he goes bad, it's going to be in terms of imposing his civilization's cultural norms and values on modern humans, and punishing them harshly for innocuous crimes like walking on stone. Anyway, he's about a thousand years old.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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