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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8855178" data-attributes="member: 42856">For a company, they are also extremely unsafe grounds to tread. Unless really over the top like Wednesday, there is a strong risk of ruffling feathers with jokes that will be deemed offensive. Someone said that humor didn't convey in print and its very possible to make a mistake and &quot;that was just humour, sorry&quot; won't work. Which doesn't mean one can't have humourous game, because knowing your players you know what is fun for the group. For WotC, trying to be a multinational mainstream company, is this worth the risk? I'd say no, unless going from the blandest of jokes.They might have different preconception, though. Saruman creating uruk-hai in vats, in the film, make it clear that there are apparently no babies: once born, they are affixed with their military equipment. It echoed the discourse that orcs were physically corrupted elves by the torture of Morgoth: no breeding really, but &quot;created&quot;, so this could be a preconception from a book reader. It won't be the same ideas about orcs with people exposed to WoW or GW.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8855178, member: 42856"] For a company, they are also extremely unsafe grounds to tread. Unless really over the top like Wednesday, there is a strong risk of ruffling feathers with jokes that will be deemed offensive. Someone said that humor didn't convey in print and its very possible to make a mistake and "that was just humour, sorry" won't work. Which doesn't mean one can't have humourous game, because knowing your players you know what is fun for the group. For WotC, trying to be a multinational mainstream company, is this worth the risk? I'd say no, unless going from the blandest of jokes. They might have different preconception, though. Saruman creating uruk-hai in vats, in the film, make it clear that there are apparently no babies: once born, they are affixed with their military equipment. It echoed the discourse that orcs were physically corrupted elves by the torture of Morgoth: no breeding really, but "created", so this could be a preconception from a book reader. It won't be the same ideas about orcs with people exposed to WoW or GW. [/QUOTE]

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