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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8508173" data-attributes="member: 85555">Yes, several times. But I don't know for sure I fully understand your position (which is why I said I was open to being corrected on your position). But I am happy to take a sincere crack at directly responding to a portion of it with my thoughts:I guess I don't quite fully understand your discomfort. In your own game has anyone expressed concern about how you are depicting these creatures? But if it bothers you, my advice would be not to use them. Whether you should be bothered, I suppose that is personal. If this is just a question that is limited to your own home game, and you aren't extending this further tacitly (for instance if there isn't an implication that others ought to share your concern), then I think there really isn't an easy way around this because the OP seems to indicate you are experiencing discomfort with all the possible options. What I would suggest, if you are on the fence here and struggling to decide is investigate much of a problem this really is, and if it is maybe just a theoretical one. Because the way it reads now it sort of has a damned if you do damned if you don't (in terms of going direction A or B with the monsters), and I think the only way presently that would probably avoid your discomfort is not using them at all. But then again, I think if your issue is one of being exclusionary or cruel in these depictions, not including them erases those cultures from the setting entirely (I don't think a setting where certain cultures don't exist is a problem, but for you that might present an issue, so that is why I am raising it here).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8508173, member: 85555"] Yes, several times. But I don't know for sure I fully understand your position (which is why I said I was open to being corrected on your position). But I am happy to take a sincere crack at directly responding to a portion of it with my thoughts: I guess I don't quite fully understand your discomfort. In your own game has anyone expressed concern about how you are depicting these creatures? But if it bothers you, my advice would be not to use them. Whether you should be bothered, I suppose that is personal. If this is just a question that is limited to your own home game, and you aren't extending this further tacitly (for instance if there isn't an implication that others ought to share your concern), then I think there really isn't an easy way around this because the OP seems to indicate you are experiencing discomfort with all the possible options. What I would suggest, if you are on the fence here and struggling to decide is investigate much of a problem this really is, and if it is maybe just a theoretical one. Because the way it reads now it sort of has a damned if you do damned if you don't (in terms of going direction A or B with the monsters), and I think the only way presently that would probably avoid your discomfort is not using them at all. But then again, I think if your issue is one of being exclusionary or cruel in these depictions, not including them erases those cultures from the setting entirely (I don't think a setting where certain cultures don't exist is a problem, but for you that might present an issue, so that is why I am raising it here). [/QUOTE]

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