D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book

[Necropolitan]

I think that's kind of the heart of the issue with Dark Sun. It's not a family friendly setting, and making it family friendly turns into something different (not necessarily worse, just different). The other settings definitely have family unfriendly elements in them, but the mature topics in Dark Sun are embedded in its core.

The majority of the people buying D&D products are adults or soon will be, but the idea that a section of the hobby should be for adults is offensive to some people.

As I previously pointed out in this thread, all the things people were wringing their hands over RPGs having (in-universe bigotry, slavery, imperialism, torture, writing more complicated than a young adult novel, and morality that isn't obvious Good vs Evil) are all already present in media for children.

Apparently it's fine to have a Dalek (a genocidal imperialist bigoted body horror eugenicist space fascist torturer slaver) on TV, but the moment you add the same exact details to a RPG it becomes a cognitohazard that needs to be scrubbed clean to ensure the moral purity of the public.

 

[Zardnaar]

The majority of the people buying D&D products are adults or soon will be, but the idea that a section of the hobby should be for adults is offensive to some people.

As I previously pointed out in this thread, all the things people were wringing their hands over RPGs having (in-universe bigotry, slavery, imperialism, torture, writing more complicated than a young adult novel, and morality that isn't obvious Good vs Evil) are all already present in media for children.

Apparently it's fine to have a Dalek (a genocidal imperialist bigoted body horror eugenicist space fascist torturer slaver) on TV, but the moment you add the same exact details to a RPG it becomes a cognitohazard that needs to be scrubbed clean to ensure the moral purity of the public.

This. BG3 also cones to mind.

Its not 2019 I think the moral panics mostly gone. Ran out of steam and wasnt organically popular anyway.

What is popular? BG3.