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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 9589117" data-attributes="member: 6785785">While those preferences are all fine, I don’t think that the RPG space should bend to the preferences you have for your table. I prefer that a variety of ways to play exist, and if the price to pay is that you sometimes have to explain your approach to new players and show them the virtues you find in it, then so be it. Well, I think the idea that everything a person does is good or everything a person does is evil to be simplistic and also pretty illogical. But… if that’s the game others want to play, that’s absolutely fine by me! I don’t feel the need to demand the books only describe one approach to this stuff. There might be something fun about the kind of campaign setting that you describe. Sure… I think we see more diversity in how this stuff is handled precisely because there are differing views about it. And I think that’s good, personally. Why should we limit ourselves to one way to handle this stuff? It seems so bizarre to me. But in regard to your other point… I acknowledge that media depictions can be problematic, and I would agree that the more prevalent a negative trend may be, the more problematic it likely will be. But I don’t think any and all instances of such must or should be treated with the same importance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 9589117, member: 6785785"] While those preferences are all fine, I don’t think that the RPG space should bend to the preferences you have for your table. I prefer that a variety of ways to play exist, and if the price to pay is that you sometimes have to explain your approach to new players and show them the virtues you find in it, then so be it. Well, I think the idea that everything a person does is good or everything a person does is evil to be simplistic and also pretty illogical. But… if that’s the game others want to play, that’s absolutely fine by me! I don’t feel the need to demand the books only describe one approach to this stuff. There might be something fun about the kind of campaign setting that you describe. Sure… I think we see more diversity in how this stuff is handled precisely because there are differing views about it. And I think that’s good, personally. Why should we limit ourselves to one way to handle this stuff? It seems so bizarre to me. But in regard to your other point… I acknowledge that media depictions can be problematic, and I would agree that the more prevalent a negative trend may be, the more problematic it likely will be. But I don’t think any and all instances of such must or should be treated with the same importance. [/QUOTE]

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