D&D (2024) What older setting do you want to see next?

[Micah Sweet]

Are we really going to say having cartoonish fake Nazi's to punch is problematic? The Scarlet Brotherhood is basically Hydra; a villainous group you can punch with impunity. They have a twisted ideology that is easily refuted and makes them easy to oppose. Take that away and they become Cobra; a villainous group that has no purpose or plan other than Be Evil.

I get that there are some sensitive things about racial purity as an ideology in the real world, but I think by saying that we can't broach the subject even as a clearly evil intention for villains reduces Evil in D&D down to cartoon levels of depth.

Cartoon Cobra really. Comics Cobra were basically wealth-driven terrorists.

 

[Yaarel]

Also. The problematic Suel narrative causes guilt by association, as if Nordic Vikings and Indiginous Central and South Americans were also WW2 N*zis. From a Norwegian perspective when dealing with a surprise invasion by N*zi Germany, N*zis cultural appropriating Nordic heritage, and treason by Quisling, the association is extremely offensive. For reasons relating to both demonization and cultural appropriation, the Suel narrative is offensive to Indigenous Americans.

 

[Parmandur]

This is making me want a list of themes that are inappropriate in this day and age, just so I know what I should be finding offensive in fiction. Apparently anyone believing in racial purity, no matter how wrong they are and how evil they are depicted, is on the list.

That's why WotC needs sensitivity readers.

 

[Micah Sweet]

That's why WotC needs sensitivity readers.

Do they have the list?

 

[Parmandur]

Do they have the list?

That would be their job, yes, to know what to look for and what to avoid.

 

[Remathilis]

That would be their job, yes, to know what to look for and what to avoid.

I assume they don't share it out as a trade secret for job protection then?

 

[Parmandur]

I assume they don't share it out as a trade secret for job protection then?

Dude.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I assume they don't share it out as a trade secret for job protection then?

It would certainly be helpful to know what kind of stories I'm not socially allowed to enjoy.

 

[CleverNickName]

I assume they don't share it out as a trade secret for job protection then?

It would certainly be helpful to know what kind of stories I'm not socially allowed to enjoy.

 

[Haplo781]

It would certainly be helpful to know what kind of stories I'm not socially allowed to enjoy.

Probably the ones involving themes we as a society have collectively decided are unacceptable.

Like keeping slaves or committing genocide.

I know some people may find this controversial, but there are other games out there for folks like that. Maybe something in a nice FATAL, or the nuTSR ouvre.