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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5398429" data-attributes="member: 18253">If by this you mean one's sense of aesthetics, what one finds intriguing, then yes. Safety zone has mild negative connotations (think: does out of the safety zone mean fear?) whereas aesthetics is more neutral.  From my viewpoint, one could characterize the defense of gunpowder in fantasy settings on this thread as much weaker with more credibility. There are over 20 pages of replies here. A lot has been said both ways, some bald assertions, some of it backed up. On the Pro-side, some agree gunpowder would change things and they have changed their setting accordingly. Others argue that gunpowder really wouldn't change things much at all. Others agree it could change things but don't want to make those changes in their setting. Of those, the first is fine with me and could be a game I played in. THe second seems unsupported to me. The third is fine; I wouldn't choose to play in that game but I can see others doing so. Sweeping the anti- side into a starwman mischaracterization is silly. Moreover, at this point in a long, contentious thread, it's as close as you ever get to a concession from the other side. So, thank you for the concession <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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