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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8330294" data-attributes="member: 6796468">I mean, that's kind of fair?But trying to define a setting which is centered around hope and adventure and the struggle against evil as blanketly Grim Dark with the idea that hope is a "hot take" (which is an intentionally insulting statement, based on the idea that somebody is speaking about something they don't fully understand) kind of says that somebody didn't understand the setting as it was written.Similarly, that bigotry must be represented fully and anyone who is "easily offended" shouldn't play? Kind of goes against the setting, directly! Part of the campaign setting explicitly states that there is no significant gender difference in society. That male and female characters are found in roughly equal measure across all levels of society with no sex-based segregation of particular types of work.Or the idea that hope and light somehow dilutes the setting? The entire setting is you fighting against a terrible and dangerous world with terrible and dangerous creatures in it because you have hope for success. Hope to change things. Because you're a hero.But you're right that I shouldn't have impuned the DMs who ran grimdark campaigns in the setting. I should only have addressed the people who made bold claims that were directly counter to what was previously written in both second and fourth edition.So while I feel the negativity and aggressive snark were appropriate responses to the tenor of discourse offered, I acknowledge that I was wrong to blame it on their DMs.</blockquote>

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