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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7543467" data-attributes="member: 37579">By "internet demagogues" and "activists" you mean reviewers and readers? Keep in mind that the only people who had the book were people given review copies and those who pre-ordered the books and got early PDF access. Copies weren't exactly available to the general gaming public, let alone non-gamers. The Chechnya bit seems bad enough...But there was also a line in the other book about how people who commit suicide are weak. But it's not "real history". It's current events. Being used for entertainment value in a game of make believe. But here's the thing: it doesn't matter if you aren't offended. It doesn't matter if you LIKE something. It's the opinion of the people who are offended that matters in this instance. I tend to use a pizza analogy here. It doesn't matter how spicy I like my pizza, it's the tastes of the most sensitive person at the table that determines if jalapenos can be added to the pizza. And telling people "Well, you don't have to eat the pizza" doesn't fly. Because then someone is going hungry. It's up to the people who like spicy food to keep a jar of hot peppers and Sriracha sauce and add that to their pizza. You may be okay with mixing real world currents events with the World of Darkness. It might be okay at your table having 9/11 be a vampire plot, and Donald Trump be a ghoul bound to the Tremere Prince, and spending his nights as a literal bootlicker. It might be fine at your table to have the migrant caravan being escaped blood bags fleeing from a Latin American Sabbat stronghold, with the reason they're being turned away not being racism but politics between the Camarilla and Sabbat and an agreement to not harbour food to prevent open war. But not everyone feels comfortable with that. And the rulebooks are designed for a general audience and have to straddle the line between being "mature" and "topical" while not trivialising real world issues.Because at the end of the day, the point of the game is to have people buy the books. Because you don't publishing books no one wants to read. And if the publisher ends up saying "if you don't like it, you don't have to read it" too often, then they're not going to sell enough copies to pay their staff.</blockquote>

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