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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9740884" data-attributes="member: 18">Editorial decisions in fiction are not censorship, especially not when they run against the government of the era in the relevant country. On a simple factual level, with no judgement, the current US government doesn't disapprove of mentioning slavery. It disapproves of saying it is a very bad thing.But it isn't as simple as that. Slavery is frequently used as a sort of cheap titillation by white authors in the US, so is rather sensitive from that perspective. And racialized chattel slavery was present and huge in the mainland US until the 1860s, where in mainland Europe it was never widespread so Europeans like to pretend they have clean-ish hands here and that it's a non-issue. WotC have shown they are generally cack-handed re sensitive issues, so do you really want them addressing that? That's not a rhetorical question. Do you?In an ideal world a diverse team who love the original DS but understand the problems it has would update this. That's probably not viable at WotC so I think the best we can hope for is that slavery is replaced with different forms of oppression that are less sensitive in that particular culture.That still leaves multiple other people, but does make it clear where the problem was! Funny it was Perkins again!</blockquote>