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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6500818" data-attributes="member: 87792">And yet. The highest grossing film of 2014 was Transformers: Age of Extinction. Second was Peter Jackson's CGI-fest expansion of one short novel into an epic trilogy. (Third was Guardians of the Galaxy which I do think was genuinely good). With those two in 1 and 2 I really don't think we can say quality wins every time.You've never heard of the family that watches A Wonderful Life every Christmas? Or James Bond. Or pick just about any comfort book/film. Most of them are pure schlock.BADD isn't as much of a worry as ending up as The Human Centipede 2 or with a <a href="http://gunshowcomic.com/471" target="_blank">whizzard as a GM</a>. I don't actually want to know about the fetishes of some of the other members of my gaming group.I'm not worried about the dirty looks and angry moms. I'm worried about exactly how terrible you can make handling sensitive issues badly. I've read precisely one tabletop RPG that handles sex as a plot element well (Monsterhearts), with most games being about as effective as a group of teenagers trying to be edgy and spurring each other on. For dangerous art that fulfils its potential, RPGs can be great excercises in empathy, and I invite people to look at Monsterhearts (coming of age stories) and Dog Eat Dog (colonialism) for starters. But you don't get that in an attempt to be edgy; that almost always merely ends up at the puerile. You get there by having something you are driven to say. And then if you attempt to go edgy beyond your point you merely add distractions that hide your central point. And as [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION] pointed out, The Mona Lisa isn't dangerous. But it's great art.</blockquote>

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