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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9712120" data-attributes="member: 6802378">Some tropes or stereotypes may be not only offensive but potentially dangerous. Let's use this classic example, the cardinal Richelieu from Alexander Dumas' classic book "the three musketeers". Maybe we can use a trope a couple of times but we should avoid the abuse of the trope. Why? Let's use other trope, the femme fatalle. You can use a femme fatalle in your stories a couple of times, but if it becomes too usually, then it may be not right.How would you feel if in a tabletop the main antagonist if the empire of the crescent moon, what sends their corsair ships to attack the coast towns to catch slaves? Can you understand now the potential risk with certain stereotipes?About the character "el vago", I don't reject the concept but it is a horrible name. "vago" in Spanish languange means "lazy, somebody who doesn't want to work". Although I admit "Castilla" could be perfect if you want a campaing about rogues, scoundreals and outcasts because the picaresque novel has got its roots in the golden Spanish age. Sorry, but I don't feel confortable when the antagonists are like ersatzs or expy of cardinal Richelieu. The secret society "the invisible college" is a clear example about because I dislike "7th Sea".  (Please, you only have to search in the wikipedia "list of Catholic clergy scientist").If the new publisher, Studio Agate,  is French then I suspect the lore of Montaigne could be rewritten according their own "points of view". I have read in tv tropes: "Some Khazar (Remnants of the Mongol Empire) communities near Ussura and the Sarmatian Commonwealth are stated to have adopted Yachidism, the setting's equivalent of Judaism. This is likely a reference to the historical Khazars, a civilization of steppe nomads noted for being the only society in history to have ever converted to Judaism en masse". Can you guess the potential risk if somebody created as an antagonist faction a Lovecraftian cult whose members are cripto-pagan Khazars? It could start like a homemade faction, but it could become too popular later. * Has anybody imagine any time a homemade setting mixing World of Darkness (vampire, werewolf, mage, changeling, wraith..) and "7th Sea"?</blockquote>

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