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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8229387"><p>Maybe, but I think that doesn't trust the audience enough to understand this is obviously meant to depict these things as horrific and bad (Falkovnia was certainly not an endorsement of those things). In many ways they were closer to home in the 90s when it came out. Most of us had grandparents who fought in the war in question, many of us had family impacted by those events, many were impacted by things like pogroms as well etc. I know in my group it was some of those personal connections for people that made a domain like Falkovnia resonate more. I can totally understand the hesitancy of WOTC to tackle that kind of subject matter. I do think though, horror is meant to be, horrifying. Not saying I am right here, I am older and maybe my sensibilities and my lines are just different than a younger audience. I just know, and maybe it is because of my age and because we were raised on a lot of overly wholesome, very special episode type entertainment, that I generally feel more insulted when movies, books, games or shows shield me from these kinds of things. I do think though with Falkovnia it dealt with this things a little more vaguely at first than it did in later iterations (in my mind Drakov kind of starts out a little more like a Stalin and slowly becomes Hitler like figure). In my own campaign I did advance the timeline at one point and have a sort of WWI/WWII scenario where Drakov was at the center (it was basically WWII but with more WWI technology and tactics for aesthetic reasons, so I could have biplanes and no-mans land). Honestly I'd be interested to see how people feel about this kind of content and if that is something that would bother gamers today.  I am pretty comfortable no longer being the target audience, and content with the old 2E books, so it doesn't really impact me which direction they go (unless they went so far back to the source material, that it won me over to 5E or something).</p></blockquote><p></p>

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