Comments on: World Building 101 – Rated M for Mature Content http://www.d20source.com/2010/07/world-building-101-rated-m-for-mature-content A blog for all fans of Dungeons & Dragons. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:00:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fatman http://www.d20source.com/2010/07/world-building-101-rated-m-for-mature-content/comment-page-1#comment-101441 Fatman Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:49:57 +0000 http://www.d20source.com/?p=1943#comment-101441 I have always included plenty of gore in my campaigns. D&D especially lends itself well to gory descriptions of hacked-off limbs, blood spurting from severed arteries, bloody arrows through the eye socket, burning flesh from a fireball, etc., etc. I tend to tone it down in more contemporary settings with firearms and laser weaponry, else it gets too repetitive. I did have a player drop out of a Spycraft game that I GC'ed several years ago due to a brutal depiction of a beheading. And this was a guy who had gladly participated in in-game obscenities prior to that. So you're correct, one can never be too careful. Violence does seem to be more acceptable than sexual content, never tried introducing graphic descriptions of sex acts as I'm pretty sure the group won't appreciate it. And it'd be awkward. I have always included plenty of gore in my campaigns. D&D especially lends itself well to gory descriptions of hacked-off limbs, blood spurting from severed arteries, bloody arrows through the eye socket, burning flesh from a fireball, etc., etc. I tend to tone it down in more contemporary settings with firearms and laser weaponry, else it gets too repetitive.

I did have a player drop out of a Spycraft game that I GC’ed several years ago due to a brutal depiction of a beheading. And this was a guy who had gladly participated in in-game obscenities prior to that. So you’re correct, one can never be too careful.

Violence does seem to be more acceptable than sexual content, never tried introducing graphic descriptions of sex acts as I’m pretty sure the group won’t appreciate it. And it’d be awkward.

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