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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 7543510" data-attributes="member: 6804070">This is an important disctinction.As an "outside" observer who has never played or read anything WoD. This amount of "support" doesn't seem very significant.Well, it seems to me something that happened yesterday is still history, even if it's impacting what is currently happening. BUT, are you implying that current events can't be used for entertainment? Because how many TV shows do this? Shows like Madam Secretary and Saturday Night Live. I really don't think you want to say that real life can not be unilaterally used for entertainment. I think you will want to put some "reasonableness" around such a statement and not imply it is na absolute.I often tend to see things this way as well. Until I realize the absurdities of applying such a statement to reasonable situations.  I mean, What if I am offended and ostracized when someone's forum name starts with the letter J? Should such forum names be banned? Of course not.A general audience? I don't think so. WoD products are designed for a very small segment of the population. I don't know the details of that population, but they certainly are not designed for a conservative Christian grandmother of age 70. They are not even designed for every gamer or even every roleplayer. I don't think they are designed for me (never been interested in the genre). They are tailored to a small market of a small (but growing) market. Now, the last part, about the books needing to be bought and read, absolutely. And it seems like in this case the publisher decided that parts of the book(s) targeted a part of the population they were not interested in, or more importantly, that parts of the books alienated a large part of the existing customer base. And that the current editors had made mistakes significant enough to prove to be a business liability and not a good steward for the product.Good for them. But its really just a business decision influenced by the growing awareness and power of social marketing, for and against a product.</blockquote>

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