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The Mighty Buzzard writes:

Sounds like a good thing, yeah? Here's the problem [breitbart.com]:

The participants in these tournaments are the *BAD GUYS* that the [player characters] are supposed to kill! Most of the “stat blocks” are for monsters/creatures for the PC’s to fight. People got up-in-arms about the TITLE of the book. Can you imagine fleshing out the main bad guy who actually puts these things on so your party of good guys can go dismantle the entire organization and kill the Half-daemon Billionaire industrialist who runs it? Now *THAT* is a bad guy worth fighting in my opinion; I’d want to kill him more than I would King Joffrey on Game of Thrones.

I’ve seen comments where people assume Chris [the author] must be a horrible human being that wants to rape people or whatever. (He isn’t. And by the same token, do these same people also think George R.R. Martin wants to have sex with his sister because he wrote about two of his characters engaged in incest?) He’s a guy with a huge imagination who loves RPG’s.

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