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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zarionofarabel" data-source="post: 9757932" data-attributes="member: 7026405">For me, who's life has been that way for the better part of two decades, those stories are reminders of why I need to value my survival so I can at least have the chance that things might get better. Everything effects people differently. I do understand that avoiding those themes in a game can be helpful for some folks. You also have my sympathies, as I fully understand how crappy life can be, and what it feels like to wonder if being alive is actually worth it.I don't think lethal combat makes a setting or game grimdark by default. That's why it is it's own genre after all. Very few of the games I run would be considered grimdark in any real way, but they still feature lethal combat.I don't see any reason why a game featuring lethal combat can't include things other than pure survival. That seems to be the real issue with people who have a problem with having lethal combat, they seem to think that it means that is the only thing it is about. That simply isn't the case. The survival aspect is simply one more thing on top of all the others.</blockquote>