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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8583562" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>By what has become the normal usage of the term, IME, the bolded means that those stories are not grimdark. </p><p></p><p>In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war, or whatever. </p><p></p><p>If heroic characters can win, and aren't just naive fools one dumb decision away from a painful death, and the protagonists both start and finish are fairly good people with decent intentions, it isn't what many (maybe most) people see as grimdark. </p><p></p><p>I irritated Robert Schwalb online one time by reacting to a post about SoTDL as "yet another grimdark setting where everything and everyone sucks and there's no hope" and he snapped at me that this was a bunk description of the work, and that it isn't grimdark, there is hope, and the expectation is that most PCs are heroic people. I heard him out, and apologised, but it stuck with me that he rejected the label of grimdark, for the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8583562, member: 6704184"] By what has become the normal usage of the term, IME, the bolded means that those stories are not grimdark. In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war, or whatever. If heroic characters can win, and aren't just naive fools one dumb decision away from a painful death, and the protagonists both start and finish are fairly good people with decent intentions, it isn't what many (maybe most) people see as grimdark. I irritated Robert Schwalb online one time by reacting to a post about SoTDL as "yet another grimdark setting where everything and everyone sucks and there's no hope" and he snapped at me that this was a bunk description of the work, and that it isn't grimdark, there is hope, and the expectation is that most PCs are heroic people. I heard him out, and apologised, but it stuck with me that he rejected the label of grimdark, for the game. [/QUOTE]
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