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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patrick Lewis1" data-source="post: 8765843" data-attributes="member: 6880093">I wont let it upset me. It's a 34 year old supplement that I first picked up when I was nine( I'm a grey as the Mr Snow picture lol). I I like it because of the fun games i had playing with it. Because at 9/10 years olf it suited my infantile sense of humour.And its okay for folk to not like it. Its almost as if Kitsch stuff like it( And it was already kitsch when it first came out) is taken seriously now. A histoical historicism or whig History as we used to call it is nothing new. People have always been morally critical of the past, they have been for millenia.I'm a happily married man in my 40s with kids and good job who occasionally plays lets pretend with dice. Someone not liking an element of my childhood memory is no reason to be cross or upset.I think there are real questions about how we can maintain a moral art code for gaming when the games themselves are often fantasies of violence and theft victimising Goblins etc. Personally I think you have to talk about it, in the Pratchett fashion to deconstruct problematic tropes wtih comedic fantasy.But if folks disagree I still have my books and memories and I'll play in a different way. I'm open to changes in discourse, its fun to see things in new ways.</blockquote>