Warning: This thread contains spoiler. If you are (or will be) a player in the Echoes of Heaven campaign or the Tainted Tears adventure, please do not continue reading.
First of all, I really like most of the Tainted Tears adventure, especially because it uses aspects of rpg I use very seldom. It creates a tension during reading, which is unique, even for EoH.
But I?m a bit concerned about the real-live association with the illness of Tannith. After the first time I read it, I felt very uncomfortable (I lost my brother and my mother to this illness and one player his father) I was sure to replace it, but after rereading, I?m not that sure anymore.
Is using this illness necessary or would it be possible to get the same effect and feelings with a ?normal? fantasy illness? Or maybe is the realism behind it what makes it that good? Maybe it is only me, because I have bad memories with this illness.
Defendi wrote something about it in his blog: http://finalredoubt.com/wordpress/?p=38
The paragraphs after ?It?s a truism of writing fiction??. I understand what he means, but I?m still not sure what to do.
What do you think about it? Do you have the same concerns?