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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 9734019" data-attributes="member: 2205">In this scene, maybe. For now. In behavioral biology it's becoming much more popular. <a href="https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/blaming-our-genes-the-heritability-of-behavior/" target="_blank">~80% of our behavior is genetic</a>. As anyone who breeds dogs, cats, horses, etc. already knew before it was repeatedly confirmed for people too. In any case, trends are often assumed to be ongoing into perpetuity. In reality, that doesn't happen very often. Just because there's been a change in tastes for what people want their gaming to reflect doesn't mean that there will continue to be. The Overton Window for all kinds of questions like this has been all over the place in all kinds of entertainment media. RPGs are actually lagging behind movies, TV and video games in some ways, which are in turn lagging way behind the cultural zeitgeist overall.</blockquote>