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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9825237" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think so personally, I think it's much more likely it was the result of the particular risk-averse corporate leadership being worried that it wouldn't fit with D&D's ultrasafe image.I don't think the social media climate is overall more positive re: the particular issues Dark Sun covers - if anything, some of them are riskier topics now than they were 3 years ago. Maybe you'd get slightly less pushback re: slavery, but climate change and authoritarian leaders? I think you're much more likely to get Elon Musk to make a Very Angry (and definitely not all 100% ketamine-induced) post about how mad he is WotC have made Dark Sun all about climate change and toppling dictators (somehow completely ignoring these being major themes of the original) now than then, whilst throwing around the w-word. It'd hardly be out-of-character.What I think is more likely is WotC have decided D&D playing it ultrasafe is probably not going to be successful longer-term, and that a little bit of controversy is probably a good thing, so long as it's not just the accidental result of dumbassery like the Hadozee stuff.I could be wrong. The proof will be in the pudding. It's certainly possible for example that the turnaround on Dark Sun had nothing to do with changing risk assessments - it could be they think they've found some genius way to sanitize the hell out of it, and probably in reality make just about everyone mad with them!</blockquote>

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