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[the_fantastic_ms_fox]

Put diplomatically

Storygames need to put some major and explicit distance between themselves and crunchy fighting games, like 4th ed D&D and World ofWarcraft.

When our community conflates the two media, and their genre-expectations, stress and conflict results.

Put less diplomatically

I have trouble believing in a world where this extent of violence is commonplace without the rest of society coming to resemble a war-torn country. I'm talking everything from disrupted infrastructure and transformed social norms to widespread PTSD and drug use.

If we're lucky, it's a tidy war between amies of rival kingdoms held on a battlefield well away from anything important. But sometimes it's a full-on unconditional genocide.

Moreover, I'm a little disturbed that there's all this violence without the consequences of violence.