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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phantom_Miria" data-source="post: 9742510" data-attributes="member: 7053811">Well, you're not saying stuff should be sanitized, but when a large number of people comes together and keep making a problem out of things that are ultimately up to how people like to play games themselves and how creatives like to make the settings they want, and they frame it in such a way that the problem isn't just a disagreement on tastes or personal preferences but, well, a social issue (be it that we shouldn't encourage villainous playstyles because we live in, er, bad times, as opposed to the good old days, or how this and that trope can potentially be interpreted as discriminatory or offensive because X and Y), what do you think ends up happening?Creatives get very careful with what they make out of fear of creating a controversy even out of a honest mistake, aka, a chilling effect on creatives; publishers get stricter with what they allow to be published, because they like money and safe products; consumers get less of the stuff they want because some stuff is now risque to make and there's a moral panic in act again. Stuff ends up getting sanitized, and in TTRPG environments this seems particularly severe.This is a lot more general than people playing bad guys and your specific case here obviously, this is not about you specifically. What I'm getting at here is that it's really bizarre for me to see how in TTRPG circles it became somehow controversial to portray seemingly slavery in any way, even the regular version with the slavers as cartoon villains to be slaughtered on sight as the crowd cheers (imagine what kind of reactions it would spark to make an actual nuanced take on the phenomenon, like how it would be to explore a society like those of the ancient world where slavery was widespread and considered not evil at all but rather an ineliminable part of human society!), while in other mediums Dark Fantasy full of racism, slavery and sexual abuse remains largely mainstream.</blockquote>

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