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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8421435" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Um, no. Any setting that sees a 5e version does NOT need to be "updated to modern sensibilities...etc". Why? Let me put it to you this way: would you be fine with ME making the decision as to what is "modern sensibilities, etc"? Is that cool with you? What's that I hear your brain saying.. "Wait...". Yeah, that. That little pause of trepidation about allowing someone other than yourself to determine what is "sensible", "not sexist", "not racist", etc. Basically...morals and ethics I guess. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say... You don't "trust my sensibilities, etc", because you don't know me. Well... that's the EXACT SAME REASONING from my, and other's, points of view.Who gets to decide what is "ok" and what is "not ok"? I'll tell you who: You do. You see/read something and think "Ok, cool", or you think "Wait, that seems unfair" or you think "OMG!? What the carp?!". Nobody can make that decision for you.What's not ok in my view: Someone else deciding what I get to read, watch, or write about because they read something and think it's "bad". No thanks. I can make up my own mind and choices about what I find acceptable or not.Greyhawk as been around for decades, almost a half century at this point. It's already written... WHY do so many people think it's a good idea to try and re-write history? I don't get it. Just write something new with what YOU want to write. Then others will read it and they will think "Ok, cool", "Wait, that seems unfair" or "OMG!? What the carp?!". That's when you know how close you are to "modern sensibilities"...at least as far as the target audience is concerned.If you wan to write your own version of Greyhawk (or Dragonlance, Faerune, Cerilia, Athas, etc) with your own sense of morals/ethics/beliefs... go for it! Enjoy! PLEASE! Do that and spend the next 40 years playing and having fun with your friends. Just leave the original and official version alone... it doesn't need "updating" any more than Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" or Dante's "Inferno", etc.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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