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I fear as my group continues to age we'll have a stroke, heart attack, or some other medical malady at the table one of these days.

I win again, Lews Therin.

I picked up the Cubical 7 version of Warhammer Fantasy on a Humble Bundle and I'm reading through it. I'll see if my players might be interested. Might as well try to run them through one of the best campaigns, The Enemy Within.

I suspect you're correct. However I often question how representative the loudest voices on social media actually are. Even then, it's not a headache I imagine WotC wants to deal with. In truth, as far as I'm concerned, Dark Sun had its time in the sun. WotC is better off working on other...

We can find genocide in Curse of Strahd and I don't recall many people complaining about it. We also have some hags in the human trafficking game cannibalizing children to produce a drug that induces euphoric dreams. What D&D players will or won't accept is hard to pin down.

I have several issues of Valiant's revival of Magnus: Robot Fighter. But I remember Shooter from Marvel more than I do anywhere else.

I'd certainly agree the direct, honest communication at the beginning of the campaign is the way to go. When I ran Delta Green years ago, I told my players the following: "If you're ever in a situation where a bunch of government goons wearing masks, armor, and armed with MP-5s are coming for...

Monopoly is a lot like thermonuclear war in that the only way to win is not to play at all.

For most games, there are conditions which are met that will end the game immediate. When a player is put into checkmate, or they resign, or they run out of time on the clock the chess match ends immediately. For RPGs it's a bit different in that there aren't any definite conditions that end...

It wasn't that complicated, so we all understood. It's just that none of us wanted to start as a former Toll Collector when we look at the tabletop miniatures game and see a dude riding a griffin. It was an aspect of the game I never understood. Like there are literal armies of Skaven in the...

I don't know if anyone considered Dark Sun to be 18+ material back in 1991. But then things have changed over the last 34 years. I was watching an episode of Sandman on Netflix and was flabbergasted to see a content warning that included both self-harm and tobacco use. I can't imagine a...

I have a ton of 2nd edition Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay books in near mint condition because I've never been able to find someone interested in playing. Part of the problem is the careers just aren't very compelling. The Rat Catcher is hilarious of course, who doesn't want a small, but vicious...

I think the first James Bond movie I actively disliked when I first saw it was Die Another Day. I just stopped caring and I thought the invisible car was gimmicky and silly. Were there other gimmicky and silly Bond moments before? Of course, but I was much younger when I saw them and it...

It's almost always about feelings.

Kids who were born in 2002 aren't the same as the ones who were born in 1982. They grew up with different forms of media, different fantasy influences, and the world as a whole has changed. For D&D to remain relevant in an everchanging market it's had to change with it. i.e. D&D in 1994...

I suspect the bulk of those who play D&D do so for a few years and eventually age out. I don't have any problem with WotC aiming their marketing decisions towards a younger age bracket than mine. It just makes sense to me.

I'll probably wait until it sits on the shelf of my local game store for a while and they put it on sale.

I think that's basically it. Probably the best argument I've heard against the problematic elements of Dark Sun is that children play D&D. I just don't think there's anything in Dark Sun that's particular harmful to children.

It still leads itself to a lot of subjectivity. Even if we all agree on what's problematic there's no objective way to decide how to handle it.

Who are these experts with the ability to tell us what is and isn't problematic?