Flabbergasted that someone would find it offensive. The original makes no specific derogatory remark about anything. It could just have easily said that I ate cabbage on a pizza when I thought it was broccoli.
In the times of the Internet it's difficult not to offend anyone, but to be offended by this joke you have to read it in a very peculiar way. The joke is meant to be aimed at Firedorn, not the other party. I'm pretty sure the backer meant no harm.
While I can't agree with the original problem, at least Obsidian listened. Sure, I think they made the wrong decision, but hey, perhaps the PR is good!
I do wonder though... what if the game had a village of people that shunned such parties and there was a sidequest to help or hinder. The villagers would be very outspoken and prejudice about the whole affair. Would that be offensive? I'm sure those NPCs would appear that way, but they'd be offensive to other NPCs. While I doubt this type of sidequest would exist I'm sure there's plenty of quests in the game, and many others like it, where NPCs are outright offensive to other NPCs about their life choices, race, gender, sexual preference, social standing or whatever the hell else. Surely those scenarios are far worse than a silly little poem.
