A hard limit is what your campaign can never have, and a soft limit is where you may only "lightly touch on" an area. These expectations include but aren’t limited to romance, mind control, cultural issues, harm to animals, natural disasters, paralysis, thirst, and claustrophobia.
Because we've never had the bard romance the tavern wench, had a mind-flayer jack our brains, scream at a drow, see forests burned down, and gotten stuck in cave-ins. If you want a safe game, play uno. Dungeons and Dragons is a game of risks.
There's an alternative: just don't play, or hang out with, people who demand the right to shut down every activity and conversation and make everything about them. It's called narcissism and it's bad, mkay?
A hard limit is what your campaign can never have, and a soft limit is where you may only "lightly touch on" an area. These expectations include but aren’t limited to romance, mind control, cultural issues, harm to animals, natural disasters, paralysis, thirst, and claustrophobia.
Because we've never had the bard romance the tavern wench, had a mind-flayer jack our brains, scream at a drow, see forests burned down, and gotten stuck in cave-ins. If you want a safe game, play uno. Dungeons and Dragons is a game of risks.
And that's one game session.
True. Absolutely true.
There's an alternative: just don't play, or hang out with, people who demand the right to shut down every activity and conversation and make everything about them. It's called narcissism and it's bad, mkay?
What happens when the sensitivity forms get leaked?
I for one applaud WotC for their design decisions - my only problem is that they don't go far enough.
(This opinion is in no way sponsored by Autarch LLC & its objectively superior d20 TTRPG, ACKS II.)