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<blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 8185737" data-attributes="member: 57112"><p>Okay, so the Abbey! This is partially a CoS problem but also partially a D&D problem. I will not be referring to the folk of the Abbey by their canonical name. I understand this might seem a bit too silly, even for folks who share many of my same sensibilities, but the etymology of the word, before its use a derogatory term for mixed breed dogs, was as derogatory slur for mixed race humans. I don't really think co-opting a slur for humans into an insult for dogs improves the standing of the word; in fact I rather believe it makes it worse. I'm not going to object if others use it though.</p><p></p><p>I'm also not going to involve all the madness/insane asylum nonsense (another unfortunate trope of classic horror). The folk (I've yet to come up with an appropriate name, but I've got a few ideas) will be perfectly sane, but rather appropriately hostile towards the humans of Krezk. This location is the site of what I hope to be one of the hardest moral dilemmas for the party, because the Abbess is very definitely afflicted with a variety of mental illnesses, and may or may not be corrupted/fallen even beyond that. Krezk is probably going to be the most difficult "point of hope" for the players to solve.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gradine, post: 8185737, member: 57112"] Okay, so the Abbey! This is partially a CoS problem but also partially a D&D problem. I will not be referring to the folk of the Abbey by their canonical name. I understand this might seem a bit too silly, even for folks who share many of my same sensibilities, but the etymology of the word, before its use a derogatory term for mixed breed dogs, was as derogatory slur for mixed race humans. I don't really think co-opting a slur for humans into an insult for dogs improves the standing of the word; in fact I rather believe it makes it worse. I'm not going to object if others use it though. I'm also not going to involve all the madness/insane asylum nonsense (another unfortunate trope of classic horror). The folk (I've yet to come up with an appropriate name, but I've got a few ideas) will be perfectly sane, but rather appropriately hostile towards the humans of Krezk. This location is the site of what I hope to be one of the hardest moral dilemmas for the party, because the Abbess is very definitely afflicted with a variety of mental illnesses, and may or may not be corrupted/fallen even beyond that. Krezk is probably going to be the most difficult "point of hope" for the players to solve. [/QUOTE]
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