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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6388454" data-attributes="member: 2011">Of course it does.But, it's one thing to say that one does not like it.It's another to say "should a publishing company be creating fictional monsters for a game that are dangerous children to be slain?"The former is an opinion that does not impact the livelihood of game designers.The latter is an opinion that could impinge on freedom of creativity and could affect the bottom line of WotC if enough people jumped on this particular bandwagon.It's only a few decades back that people were trying to get TSR to shut down their doors because they had demons and devils in the game.I would prefer that people not cross that particular line and when people start talking about the publisher doing morally wrong (OMG, the publishers created an infant dangerous capable evil monster) instead of the artistic creation being in poor taste, that's the direction that it might just go into.And the bizarre thing about the conversation is that nobody on the "not a big deal" side is condoning heroic PC killing of harmless/good infant creatures as an acceptable heroic PC action, only dangerous/evil ones. How exactly is that bad/wrong/fun? Shouldn't heroic PCs be killing dangerous evil NPCs?</blockquote>