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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phantom_Miria" data-source="post: 9833408" data-attributes="member: 7053811">I don't really think that's kind of a problem, actually.You can't control what players will ultimately do when they run their games, whether they'll play as the good guys and follow the "intended" reading of the game, or use homebrew instead of official material, or just decide to play as total jerks who run a sex slavery ring for edgelord points. I mean this very literally: there is no way to control what people do at their tables and in their homes, no matter what's written in the books or what people say about it on Twitter or Youtube. They're out of public's reach and that's actually a good thing when you stop and think about it.Frankly, I find more problematic the idea that we should be concerned about the fact that everyone everywhere is playing "properly", even if they're doing their reprehensible fictional stuff as consenting adults freely deciding to do so, than the fictional reprehensible stuff itself.I mean, if someone picks up Dark Sun to run a slave harem they're pretty much disregarding the entire theme of the setting to play a fetish game, and that's clearly not the intended message of the setting nor the expected gameplay, but at the same time who the hell am I to tell people that they're not allowed to play their fetish games in the privacy of their homes if that's how they like to spend their time? It's not like rewriting the setting is gonna deter them anyway, they were never taking their biggest inspiration out of Dark Sun specific lore. The edgy 13 year old will always quote the Bell Curve, no matter what you do to make him stop, he's just looking for excuses and if he doesn't find one he'll do without it.To me it seems not just pointless, but actually self-harming, if not downright counter-productive, to start sanitizing our fictional settings and remove those very elements that you yourself say fit perfectly well with the themes of the world (taking the easy and wrong way out rather than the longer and just one, defilement as opposed to preservation, slavery as opposed to treating people like they're people), all in order to dissuade a minority of eternal edgelords who never bothered to read the material to begin with, who will continue to ignore the material and keep doing what they planned to do anyway, and leaving us with a worse setting that reads like a parody and the people who like to play slavers being possibly further emboldened now that their favourite topic is treated like a forbidden fruit.</blockquote>

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