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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 3610365" data-attributes="member: 3285">I agree wholeheartedly.&nbsp; In fact, my biggest complaint isn't that there's a bizarre emphasis on this kind of thing...it's that it keeps being brought up.I think it's safe to say that bad people do bad things to other people.&nbsp; A good 80% of the examples happen off screen anyway.&nbsp; It's easy to ignore, and I plan to ignore it in my game. I'm just not sure why the authors kept harping on it.I also don't see the value in having any of this squicky stuff take place &quot;on screen.&quot;&nbsp; Almost all of the victims are faceless; they don't even have any statistics.&nbsp; They're footnotes that have a random chance of being in a room -- in other words, this brutalization is a RANDOM event.I'm all for shocking my players.&nbsp; But I think a sensitive issue like this should be presented artistically. If it furthers the plot, I will at least understand why the adventure presents the situation, even though I may not like it.&nbsp; As an author, I can tell you that some companies would simply not publish this sort of content at all because it risks incurring the wrath of the D20 Licence, which specifically states: Pirates raping women?&nbsp; I get it.Having not one but three cases of child abuse?&nbsp; That's pushing things a bit.Calling a villainess a Sea Bitch?&nbsp; Coupled with some of the other stuff. This just seems like someone's got an axe to grind.And finally...some pirates are brutalizing the CORPSES of their victims?&nbsp; That one caused my wife (a player in my campaign) to agree that the adventure went too far. You're quite welcome. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="talien, post: 3610365, member: 3285"] I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, my biggest complaint isn't that there's a bizarre emphasis on this kind of thing...it's that it keeps being brought up. I think it's safe to say that bad people do bad things to other people. A good 80% of the examples happen off screen anyway. It's easy to ignore, and I plan to ignore it in my game. I'm just not sure why the authors kept harping on it. I also don't see the value in having any of this squicky stuff take place "on screen." Almost all of the victims are faceless; they don't even have any statistics. They're footnotes that have a random chance of being in a room -- in other words, this brutalization is a RANDOM event. I'm all for shocking my players. But I think a sensitive issue like this should be presented artistically. If it furthers the plot, I will at least understand why the adventure presents the situation, even though I may not like it. As an author, I can tell you that some companies would simply not publish this sort of content at all because it risks incurring the wrath of the D20 Licence, which specifically states: Pirates raping women? I get it. Having not one but three cases of child abuse? That's pushing things a bit. Calling a villainess a Sea Bitch? Coupled with some of the other stuff. This just seems like someone's got an axe to grind. And finally...some pirates are brutalizing the CORPSES of their victims? That one caused my wife (a player in my campaign) to agree that the adventure went too far. You're quite welcome. :) [/QUOTE]

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