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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9784533" data-attributes="member: 6802378">We could agree speculative fiction needs ethical values but if you want to convince your readers or audiences then you can't seem a propaganda pamphlet. And you have to coherent. If you tell a story to report the sins by a group but you say nothing about others then you lose all credibility. We have to be more subtle.The sage of "Song of Ice and Fire" (Game of Thrones) isn't ideologically neutral at all, and its really is one of the most mature (in the right sense) but it is told in the right way. There is a clear difference between an older guy tring to share his wisdow and telling a tale to brainwash you. The fantasy movie "the golden compass" suffered a boycot, and we know the reasons.Hasbro wants D&D to be a family-friendly brand, and in 5e Ravenloft has been relativelly softed. Even if Dark Sun is updated to 5e we may see some serious changes, for example certain details will be totally omitted because they are about certain taboo threats for the current standars by WotC.Some tropes could become inaproppiate when certain abuse of some stereotype begins to occur, for example the femme fatale. Of course you can add a femme fatale in your stories a couple of times but if the players suspects each hot-chick in the scene could be a potential menace, there could be a dangerous abuse of trope. Other potentially dangerous trope is to introduce antagonists like the cardinal Richelieu. This is a spot mocking certain Hollywood trope.[MEDIA=youtube]e7gR7EYjcP8[/MEDIA]WotC even with it flaws at least it is creating a fanbase. In other countries lots of roleplayers started with D&D and later maybe they changed into other game but D&D has been the icebreaker ship in other markets. You don't know what is to have to await several months to can buy the translated edition (even if you wanted to buy the imported original English-languange edition is more difficult) and lots of titles aren't translated.</blockquote>

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