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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 9833423" data-attributes="member: 1008">There are a small number of publishers sometimes making absolute statements in their games about how their games are allowed to be played. I have also seen people state that if Dark Sun was rereleased then WotC must tell people that certain things are absolutely not allowed to be included in their game when they run it.  It's not a huge issue and it's certainly not a bogeyman, but it is something that some people try and do and that others encourage. It's certainly nothing to be afraid of, because it's completely unenforceable. I mostly just think it's silly and a little arrogant.I can understand that some people want slavery removed from Dark Sun. However, I find it very hard to believe that someone pitching Dark Sun without defiling actually cares about or wants Dark Sun at all.If you want all the bad stuff to be undefined and just "something bad people do, but PCs can't even be tempted by it and there's no mechanism or possible way for them to use it because no one even knows how it functions" ... well, people are going to want to know how defiling works if it's there and they will just go invent their own rules for it if necessary. Leaving those rules out because of a fear that PCs will defile makes zero sense to me at all. If this is really considered a valid concern, then I genuinely believe that only sensible approach is to just not release new Dark Sun material at all.I don't agree that something being possible in a game means that PCs are automatically encouraged to engage in that thing, in any meaningful sense.In my last Dark Sun game, the PCs found out that were complicit in slave trading and they weren't able to immediately do anything about it. I can assure you, this didn't make them villains and the fact that they could have decided it was all in good fun did not in any way encourage them to believe this was OK. They were, in fact, extremely angry about it. As with much of Dark Sun, this event was a Call to Action for them to start thinking about how they can bring about change.</blockquote>

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