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<blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8678906" data-attributes="member: 30438">For what my opinion's worth, it's a complicated subject and one that stretches out far beyond just RPGs.I wouldn't say that it's become more judgmental and moralistic - I think things have shifted dramatically in fantasy as a whole. We are more likely to question microaggressions, implicit biases, and injustices perpetrated through our fictions. Just look at A Song of Ice and Fire (and Grimdark in general); there's a thread of rampant misogyny that runs throughout the series, which at the time was &quot;look how edgy this grim realism in&quot; and now is met with &quot;perpetrating violence against women in fiction as shorthand to show how dark and dangerous your world is lazy writing.&quot; I really wonder how Winds of Winter will be received if it maintains that same tone and ever comes out now, but that's a different conversationIt's how if you look at the Lord of the Rings movies (which I love) and how no one at the time thought that maybe having the only dark skinned characters in the movie be the uruk-hai isn't a great look. Compare that to the diversity shown in the Rings of Power trailers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ralif Redhammer, post: 8678906, member: 30438"] For what my opinion's worth, it's a complicated subject and one that stretches out far beyond just RPGs. I wouldn't say that it's become more judgmental and moralistic - I think things have shifted dramatically in fantasy as a whole. We are more likely to question microaggressions, implicit biases, and injustices perpetrated through our fictions. Just look at A Song of Ice and Fire (and Grimdark in general); there's a thread of rampant misogyny that runs throughout the series, which at the time was "look how edgy this grim realism in" and now is met with "perpetrating violence against women in fiction as shorthand to show how dark and dangerous your world is lazy writing." I really wonder how Winds of Winter will be received if it maintains that same tone and ever comes out now, but that's a different conversation It's how if you look at the Lord of the Rings movies (which I love) and how no one at the time thought that maybe having the only dark skinned characters in the movie be the uruk-hai isn't a great look. Compare that to the diversity shown in the Rings of Power trailers. [/QUOTE]

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