In Response to Seth's Reason for Leaving:
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I'm sorry someone else's trauma is such an inconvenience to you and your grandmother. I don't mean to be snarky, but how else is someone supposed to interpret your statement?
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As I former DM, my old approach was to always take the Hitchcock approach to anything involving children. IE: No harm comes to them that you see on screen…
Wow…. I just realized... that's probably why my old Bhaliir retainer Jance went down for capital crimes... He killed a rock throwing child, in game, in front of people.. he was drunk (so was I) and claimed he thought it was a halfling attacking people... (knee jerk drunken reactions can get your characters killed, fyi)
There may have been some ooc considerations around that... Even though he tried to make reparations, and almost succeeded... he (inadvertantly) got the KotMS Richard Stallner, who got him off the death sentence initially, to lose his paladinhood over it... I can see that now... and I can understand the ooc implications...
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Ok. Lets clear some stuff up.
An event happened. It didn't cross the line. Hell. It didn't come close. Someone then told Seth about it. They May have misrepresented the situation by accident. Maybe they leant more on certain aspects. I don't know. Seth likely then having heard a distorted view focused upon certain aspects of it more than others. Just another misunderstanding.
Which is what happened here. Something happened that wasn't wrong. Some people focused on one part, or talked theoretically. People misconstrued or misunderstood and now people are in danger of overreacting to something no one said.
As for the "man up. In my grandmas day…" i'm no fan of the pc fad. But hey, back when your grandma was a kid? Computers ran on cogs and valves. Sometimes progress is good thing.
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Honestly though, with how the world of D&D is, if you do not want to see bad things happening to children on screen, then all children NPCs need to be removed from the module, as countless children have been killed in various ways on screen.
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I think this has been run around enough; there were some great points made and I'd like to lock this and remember it fondly as a mature and thoughtful conversation.
Thank you all for your input and feedback :)