D&D General What do you allow in your games? (NSFW)

[Slit518]

Here I will post some social taboos. I want to take a poll of what you folks allow/play with, if you don't mind.

You as the reader can either take it from a player perspective or a DM and setting perspective.

You can choose multiple answers, be careful what you choose however, you can not change your answers once the message is posted!

This poll will be active for 13 days. Results can only be seen once you have voted!

Certain things may be "implied." As Zardnaar put it, off-screen things that happen, but aren't described but everyone kind of has an idea.

 

[Zardnaar]

I left out incest, pedophilia, rape, molestation and pedophilia.

If it's there it's implied, happens off screen but most of the time don't even go there.

 

[Slit518]

I left out incest, pedophilia, rape, molestation and pedophilia.

If it's there it's implied, happens off screen but most of the time don't even go there.

I should edit my original post.

 

[Giltonio_Santos]

I aim for content that stays within the boundaries of PG-13 for my own games. As a player, I usually have no restriction on any of the mentioned themes, but I once played with a DM that insisted on some of those taboos just for the shock value. I, together with a fellow player, interrupted it at some point and just asked "Dude, really? Again? What's your problem?". It was an awkward moment, and I chose to do something else with my spare time after that.

 

[Tonguez]

I once had PCs enter an monastary that was plagued by demons, in one vision the PCs were given a scene in which a priest enters an orphans room and it is implied that the child is molested, though it wasnt out right stated, instead it was explained that this was how the demons were able to gain access despite the Hallow ground.

My PC has beenm tortured and I’ve played a Barbarian cannibal whose rage was the Blood Frenzy he entered from biting hunks of flesh and blood from his opponents

and is Ghost Love necrophilia?

 

[DWChancellor]

As DM, half of these are basic tools for illustrating bad-guy badness. Does the undead's desire to kill all of the living count as genocide? I'd say... yes? Do the players constantly commit what would be considered murder by many of their victims? By modern standards, yes.

I pretty much cut out all "in-play" sexual stuff and any sexual violence is implied if even that. Same goes for other things vaguely on the "mental damage" axis. If I was running a Call of Chthulhu campaign I might edge towards some of these as body-horror is a big part of the mythos. For D&D, I veer a little more towards power-fantasy and I do not want to mix that with sexual/psychological themes. That's not what I or my players are really here for.

For kid games I cut out most of the other "naughties" too.

 

[Hawk Diesel]

A lot of the ones I do allow are usually framed in a way that stays away from realism. For example, bigotry and racism may exist between actual races (elves, dwarves, ect) but it is not ok to be represented any more realistically than that. Also, many of the others I chose are ok as a tool for the DM to make compelling villains or struggles that the players may need to overcome, but not so cool for the players to use or act on. I don't want a game where the players engage in slaughter of sentient creatures or attempting/advocating for genocide. But even then, as the DM there are lines that I will not cross. My villain are not engaging in rape, pedophilia, and slavery in general is not generally a part of my game worlds. While I am an adult and play with other adults, there are themes that I don't want in a game that is meant to be fun or escapist. I have no interest in resurrecting F.A.T.A.L.

This may have something to do with me being a child therapist who works for the department of children and family services. Those themes are just too real and triggering for me.

 

[Shiroiken]

As a DM, I am willing to run a game with adult themes, and have used all of these except pedophilia and molestation (honestly not 100% sure of the difference). Those haven't been used simply because haven't had a story they would be relevant in, not because I feel they're taboo. If a player has an issue with something, I've advised them to notify me in advance (I won't do something that knowingly makes someone uncomfortable), but otherwise everything is fair game. I've had a minotaur rape a female PC, who later chose to abort the pregnancy. I almost managed to get a harpy to do the reverse to a male PC, but they got a lucky critical hit as it was flying away with him. I had a PC horribly scarred by torture because her lover (another PC) wouldn't give up the information the villain wanted. You should get the idea.

As a side note, as a player I've performed (in various campaigns): Bestiality, Bigotry (this is in almost every campaign), Genocide, Murder, Rape, Slavery, Thievery, and Torture. I've had an idea for a necrophiliac necromancer, but it was never actually made. I had a character that would have done cannibalism... but I didn't think of it (he did most of the things on my list).

 

[Lanefan]

Don't generally allow rape, pedophilia, or (known) incest; but pretty much anything else goes...with possible in-game consequences, of course, not least of which is a long hard look at that character's alignment.

I didn't vote on bestiality because I simply can't remember it ever coming up in the game.

 

[ccs]

Bestiality - Not really? I mean, the Greek, Norse, etc deities & their stories are part of our games.... And it's been implied by one of the players that their character - who can shape-change into animals - will occasionally head off into the woods to find a good time with the assorted wildlife. Presumably as wolf + wolf or whatever. No one ever asked for the details.

Bigotry - Absolutely.
You don't pack a Monster Manuals+ worth of radically different intelligent things into the world & expect everyone to have a Coke & a smile.

Cannibalism - Cannibalistic 1/2ling are a thing in the DS setting you know.....
As are rumors of what goes on in assorted far off jungles/islands/Evil lands. Most monsterous humanoid tribes such as orcs/goblins/gnolls/ogres/etc are known to eat people.
It's a contributing factor in:

Genocide! - Not at all uncommon with the villains. But I've found very few players over the years who'll object to wiping out goblin/orc/etc tribes. In fact some of them have referred to Genocide as Plan C.

Incest - The Greek, Norse, etc deities & their stories are part of our games.... And it crops up as a villain thing. You know, GoT.... I haven't seen it on the PC side though.

Molestation & Pedophilia - No.

Murder - Of course. There's people (& things) murdering & being murdered all over our games - NPCs, PCs, good guys, bad guys....

Necrophilia - Does it count if both parties are undead?? Or living + undead? Anyways, living + dead, like whatever the shapechanger mentioned above was up to, it's been implied for some villains & a few PCs over the years.

Rape - Most often left implied or noted in the background. As in, the invading hoard was raping & pillaging.
I've not had any PC as the perpetrator. Not even the evil ones.
There's been a few PCs who've been victims in their backstories. There's been a lot of 1/2orcs with this as their origin (stated or implied)....
And one of the players specifically asked for this to be a possibility of something that could be encountered at a party the PCs were attending at the beginning of the current campaign. Um, ok??.... I wasn't intending on that, but since it was a specific request I gave it one 1% entry on the random chart. {it didn't come up though}

Slavery - Absolutely.
It's very hard to free slaves, run the Slave Lords series, etc without it.
And I've played an LE Chevalier in PF who (essentially) owned a teifling slave. I had the leadership feat. The Tiefling was my cohort. The other players thought the tiefling was a slave. The reality was the tiefling was a criminal serving a set period of indentured servitude to my order. A fact that could be, and was, verified in play. But for all intents & purposes? As I was the last known member of my order? My PC had a tiefling slave.

Thievery - Absolutely.

Torture - Most often implied or noted in the background. Mostly a villain thing. Though I've seen plenty of players who've stated that their PCs torture the (captive) for info. Ok, like the shape-changer & the Necro, I don't really need the details. So make a intimidation check.....

BTW, you forgot blasphemy.