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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9759933" data-attributes="member: 6906155">I think you might be reading between the lines here, and it's far from clear what the author's original intent was*. A couple of days ago we had a couple of people citing the module's introduction, which clearly (if taken at face value) portrayed the Realm as good guys and the humanoids as bad guys. In the new version, the authors are deliberately making the text accessible to the average 12 year old, so the language is clearer. But &quot;is the Realm good?&quot; is a more interesting question than &quot;are the goblins evil?&quot; There is an Eng Lit essay in there. But from the point of view of running this, I would tailor it to the audience: unambiguous for kids, nuanced for adults, and extra-grimdark for teens. It's easy to add stuff in.*my personal feeling is Gygax was enough of a historian to let a bit of real medieval Europe in, and so oppression, torture, little personal freedom and draconian punishments are the norm, even for &quot;good guys&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 9759933, member: 6906155"] I think you might be reading between the lines here, and it's far from clear what the author's original intent was*. A couple of days ago we had a couple of people citing the module's introduction, which clearly (if taken at face value) portrayed the Realm as good guys and the humanoids as bad guys. In the new version, the authors are deliberately making the text accessible to the average 12 year old, so the language is clearer. But "is the Realm good?" is a more interesting question than "are the goblins evil?" There is an Eng Lit essay in there. But from the point of view of running this, I would tailor it to the audience: unambiguous for kids, nuanced for adults, and extra-grimdark for teens. It's easy to add stuff in. *my personal feeling is Gygax was enough of a historian to let a bit of real medieval Europe in, and so oppression, torture, little personal freedom and draconian punishments are the norm, even for "good guys". [/QUOTE]

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