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Nudity in RPG books?
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Zaarastara
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Nudity does not bother me in role-playing books, so long as does not express a purient interest in sex and is tatsefully rendered. However, one person's "tastefully rendered" is another person's "pornography."
Although it is goes against the positive liberty aspect of my beliefs, if I had to choose whether to include nudity or not include nudity in a role-playing book, I would have to side with not including nudity.
Although it is goes against the positive liberty aspect of my beliefs, if I had to choose whether to include nudity or not include nudity in a role-playing book, I would have to side with not including nudity.
Ogrork the Mighty
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You mean Hustlers & Dragons, right?
I think nudity has a definite place in D&D, simply b/c it has a definite place in life. I can't stand Western prudishness when it comes to the human body and sex. We're supposed to be the most sophisticated society in the world yet we cringe and cry when a little teet is shown. Gimme a break!
I think nudity has a definite place in D&D, simply b/c it has a definite place in life. I can't stand Western prudishness when it comes to the human body and sex. We're supposed to be the most sophisticated society in the world yet we cringe and cry when a little teet is shown. Gimme a break!
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BrooklynKnight
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Sigurd
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Your Poll is incomplete & Biased
There should be a choice between :
Nudity is evil! It shouldn't be in our RPG Books! FOR GODSAKES, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
I don't mind Nudity so much as long as it is non-sexual.
Or you should not make fun of people with the first option. My experience that role playing games with nudity & sexual overtones tend to:
1: take up too much time with the sexual element (surprise)
2: make some players uneasy - dont forget this is a role playing game where you still interract with another real person. I don't want to say debased things that a debased creature would have to say -- and I dont want to role play badly. This is a no win situation if all the game elements are not organized to releave it.
3: I think it makes it harder to include more people. Not simply "FOR GODSAKES, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!". Do you want to kiss away the under 18 market and make it difficult for stores to stock your product?
4: Lend fuel to those who criticize D&D
I think you have to add an option that says " I prefer the traditional implied sexuality with no nudity. "
I am not a bible belter but neither do I believe you should make fun of them - if their view of god includes a view of sexual correctness who are you to make them a characature. I think you should modify the first option
I didn't mind the nudity in Empire of the Petal Throne -- but there was also a great game there. The drawings were stylistic and not colour.
I guess the greatest danger is that publishers use T&A to sell D&D. I think that leads to bad gaming books.
Sigurd
There should be a choice between :
Nudity is evil! It shouldn't be in our RPG Books! FOR GODSAKES, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
I don't mind Nudity so much as long as it is non-sexual.
Or you should not make fun of people with the first option. My experience that role playing games with nudity & sexual overtones tend to:
1: take up too much time with the sexual element (surprise)
2: make some players uneasy - dont forget this is a role playing game where you still interract with another real person. I don't want to say debased things that a debased creature would have to say -- and I dont want to role play badly. This is a no win situation if all the game elements are not organized to releave it.
3: I think it makes it harder to include more people. Not simply "FOR GODSAKES, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!". Do you want to kiss away the under 18 market and make it difficult for stores to stock your product?
4: Lend fuel to those who criticize D&D
I think you have to add an option that says " I prefer the traditional implied sexuality with no nudity. "
I am not a bible belter but neither do I believe you should make fun of them - if their view of god includes a view of sexual correctness who are you to make them a characature. I think you should modify the first option
I didn't mind the nudity in Empire of the Petal Throne -- but there was also a great game there. The drawings were stylistic and not colour.
I guess the greatest danger is that publishers use T&A to sell D&D. I think that leads to bad gaming books.
Sigurd
SteelDraco
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I'd rather they didn't have nudity in books most of the time.
I work at a gaming store. We have a fairly strict policy that if there's nudity in a product, we bag it and put a mature label on it. That means that people can't casually leaf through it, which is how we sell a good chunk of our gaming products. It's inconvenient for us, and the customer.
Further, I just don't think nudity adds anything significant. I mean, that's hardly the purpose of a gaming book. If I want to look at that sort of thing, I'm not going to head for my gaming bookshelf. I have the Internet.
I work at a gaming store. We have a fairly strict policy that if there's nudity in a product, we bag it and put a mature label on it. That means that people can't casually leaf through it, which is how we sell a good chunk of our gaming products. It's inconvenient for us, and the customer.
Further, I just don't think nudity adds anything significant. I mean, that's hardly the purpose of a gaming book. If I want to look at that sort of thing, I'm not going to head for my gaming bookshelf. I have the Internet.
Ankh-Morpork Guard
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So THAT'S what my problem is...curse being born with a comfy shirt...alsih2o said:
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