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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8463245" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I wish there were another rating between PG-13 and R, because I feel like that's really where my game falls.The vast majority of the time, this is a relatively "bright" setting. The world is overall decent. Good people doing good things for others actually works. Showing mercy is effective, not rank foolishness. Outright blood-and-guts gore is rare, used judiciously to make a point or highlight an action. The good things of the world may be a little fragile, may be at risk, but they absolutely can be saved, if people stand up to do it--and that's what heroes are for. "For we who walk before may lead those who walk after." That's what heroes do: they blaze the trail, both to make it safe for others, and to be the guiding light of inspiration to others who will come after them.There are, occasionally, sexual or adult themes. Slavery, while explicitly forbidden in both the city-folk and nomad-tribe cultures, is still perpetrated by horrible people. There are demons and members of the group sometimes swear a blue streak. That happens. Overall though...it's a pretty good place to live in, and that's part of what motivates the players to do something. They know that their actions protect those good things from being broken.Whether you live in pitch darkness or glowing light is not relevant. What is relevant is whether you can see, know, experience the contrast between light and dark. Too many works of yesteryear were 40 kW searchlight brightness goodness 24/7, and people grew fatigued. These days, too many works are ichor-of-a-dead-god bleak and utter hopless grimdark 24/7, and people grow fatigued. I offer a world that is mostly bright but has its dark patches that are working to grow larger. The 4e default setting, "Points of Light," is the same thing from the opposite direction--there remain points of true, genuine light in a space that is rapidly growing dark, and those points require action if they are to survive and grow.Or, in other terms, I run a "noblebright" game, as opposed to a "grimdark" game. But being noblebright doesn't mean having no conflict or having flawless paragons of perfect virtue who never do wrong. My players' characters are often quite flawed. But they choose to do the right things for the right reasons, and dare to believe that doing so matters for making the world stay a pretty good place to be.</blockquote>

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