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<blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 3965545" data-attributes="member: 23937"><p>Pathfinder #4 was already in the can well before the big thread about "torture porn" started up over at our messageboards, so it wasn't "toned down" due to the controversy at all. Horror is the most popular genre in adventures (at least, according to reader feedback over five years of working on Dungeon, it was), so we wanted to put some horror into Pathfinder early on. Also, one of the themes of Rise of the Runelords is sin, so it's gonna go in some dark and creepy places no matter what.</p><p></p><p>BUT: Pathfinder 4, "Fortress of the Stone Giants" was indeed intended to lighten the mood a bit, and to move away from the gothic horror (AKA English horror from the '60s) of "Skinsaw" and the exploitation horror of "Hook Mountain" (AKA American horror from the '70s). The darkness in those adventures were essential in order to get the point across that the bad guys are symbols for the seven deadly sins, essential in order to make a haunted house scary, an essential in order to give our ogres a distinctively bestial and "fresh" look, like we did with our goblins. Ogres are kind of the pushovers in the giant type, and by making them really vile and onerous, I hoped to elevate them at least back into the "THESE GUYS ARE REALLY TERRIBLE" category, even though they're only CR 3.</p><p></p><p>That said... each GM should absolutely adjust and adapt Pathfinder to his or her campaign. I just wanted to point out why we went with the choices and themes we did for the adventures themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jacobs, post: 3965545, member: 23937"] Pathfinder #4 was already in the can well before the big thread about "torture porn" started up over at our messageboards, so it wasn't "toned down" due to the controversy at all. Horror is the most popular genre in adventures (at least, according to reader feedback over five years of working on Dungeon, it was), so we wanted to put some horror into Pathfinder early on. Also, one of the themes of Rise of the Runelords is sin, so it's gonna go in some dark and creepy places no matter what. BUT: Pathfinder 4, "Fortress of the Stone Giants" was indeed intended to lighten the mood a bit, and to move away from the gothic horror (AKA English horror from the '60s) of "Skinsaw" and the exploitation horror of "Hook Mountain" (AKA American horror from the '70s). The darkness in those adventures were essential in order to get the point across that the bad guys are symbols for the seven deadly sins, essential in order to make a haunted house scary, an essential in order to give our ogres a distinctively bestial and "fresh" look, like we did with our goblins. Ogres are kind of the pushovers in the giant type, and by making them really vile and onerous, I hoped to elevate them at least back into the "THESE GUYS ARE REALLY TERRIBLE" category, even though they're only CR 3. That said... each GM should absolutely adjust and adapt Pathfinder to his or her campaign. I just wanted to point out why we went with the choices and themes we did for the adventures themselves. [/QUOTE]
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