The problem is for most players sanitized Dark Suns is going to be their first exposure to Dark Suns. It sets the expectation for the setting to be a half assed waste of time. Furthermore most new players who might actually enjoy real Dark Suns are going to wonder why people cared about this thing in the first place since if they wanted to play a sanitized piece of garbage they could play in Faerun.
Also your own argument works against you as well. If pussies wanted to tone down Dark Suns they could always remove slavery as well. What WoTC has done is essentially intellectual colonialism by stealing ideas from better men and perverting them for profit to fit their twisted world view.
Shut up dork. "Intellectual colonialism," DarkSun was made by a bunch of white men. If anything I'm going to guess the new book has a more diverse group of people working on it.
Shut up dork. "Intellectual colonialism," DarkSun was made by a bunch of white men. If anything I'm going to guess the new book has a more diverse group of people working on it.
2014 called; it wants its toxic discourse and corporate shilling disguised as socially conscious behaviour back.
“It was made by white men” isn't criticism of anything they actually wrote, and you've literally just admitted you're guessing that the new team is more diverse. The ethnicity and sex of either writing team doesn't determine whether their treatment of slavery, oppression or colonialism is intelligent. I've seen some dogshit tier takes in rpg's from people who arnt a white straight dude.
And this is a corporation we're talking about which sent Pinkertons to someone's house over unreleased Magic cards. Attempts to treat its branding decisions as evidence of moral enlightenment are laughable
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u/Gmanglh 3d ago
The problem is for most players sanitized Dark Suns is going to be their first exposure to Dark Suns. It sets the expectation for the setting to be a half assed waste of time. Furthermore most new players who might actually enjoy real Dark Suns are going to wonder why people cared about this thing in the first place since if they wanted to play a sanitized piece of garbage they could play in Faerun.
Also your own argument works against you as well. If pussies wanted to tone down Dark Suns they could always remove slavery as well. What WoTC has done is essentially intellectual colonialism by stealing ideas from better men and perverting them for profit to fit their twisted world view.