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<blockquote data-quote="ArielManx" data-source="post: 870796" data-attributes="member: 11220">hunter1828 (my husband) covered most of the details of what's acceptable in our campaign, so I'll just touch on a couple of things:NUDITY IN MY GAMES:&nbsp; One particularly fun moment from our campaign - during a huge battle a wizard threw a Fireball, centered on one of our thieves (we were still playing 2e at the time).&nbsp; He had a good save roll, plus a ring of fire resistance, so the DM announced, &quot;You survive.&nbsp; Your clothes don't.&quot;&nbsp; Luckily his magic bow and arrows made it, so there's a nekkid moon elf shooting arrow after arrow at the Zhents.&nbsp; (He got some new clothes eventually.)NUDITY AND SEX IN MY BOOKS: Well, what kind of books are we talking about here?Gaming books: The core books should be acceptable for the masses, because they're required to play the game and everyone should be able to play the game.&nbsp; But the supplimental stuff, which no one is required to buy, is a different venue.&nbsp; Nudity and sex are fine there in the appropriate doses - by that I mean you would expect there to be maybe some reference in something like the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, considerably more in Races of Faerun, and a LOT more in a Book of Erotic Fantasy.Art Books: Nudity is just fine here.&nbsp; Sex...well...it better be good art to begin with.&nbsp; For me the biggest thing with art books is that the art has to be good!&nbsp; If the art is good, the bared bosoms and shaved oiled chests will be fantastic.&nbsp; I would never want to see anything naked drawn by comic book artist Frank Quitely, but Larry Elmore can draw all the nudes he wants as far as I'm concerned.Novels: Nudity and sex can be wonderful additions to a good story so long as they're not gratuitous.&nbsp; When reading a fantasy novel I want the story to flow and for the events that occur to make sense regarding the context.&nbsp; If I want to read about sex that doesn't fit in with any story line...well, there are places I can go online for that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> My feeling with anything like sex, nudity, violence, gore, etc, is that it should fit the situation and not be just thrown in or overdone for sheer shock value.&nbsp; Sometimes you need to be more graphic than others, and learning when is the right time to go into detail is the key.Ariel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ArielManx, post: 870796, member: 11220"] hunter1828 (my husband) covered most of the details of what's acceptable in our campaign, so I'll just touch on a couple of things: NUDITY IN MY GAMES: One particularly fun moment from our campaign - during a huge battle a wizard threw a Fireball, centered on one of our thieves (we were still playing 2e at the time). He had a good save roll, plus a ring of fire resistance, so the DM announced, "You survive. Your clothes don't." Luckily his magic bow and arrows made it, so there's a nekkid moon elf shooting arrow after arrow at the Zhents. (He got some new clothes eventually.) NUDITY AND SEX IN MY BOOKS: Well, what kind of books are we talking about here? Gaming books: The core books should be acceptable for the masses, because they're required to play the game and everyone should be able to play the game. But the supplimental stuff, which no one is required to buy, is a different venue. Nudity and sex are fine there in the appropriate doses - by that I mean you would expect there to be maybe some reference in something like the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, considerably more in Races of Faerun, and a LOT more in a Book of Erotic Fantasy. Art Books: Nudity is just fine here. Sex...well...it better be good art to begin with. For me the biggest thing with art books is that the art has to be good! If the art is good, the bared bosoms and shaved oiled chests will be fantastic. I would never want to see anything naked drawn by comic book artist Frank Quitely, but Larry Elmore can draw all the nudes he wants as far as I'm concerned. Novels: Nudity and sex can be wonderful additions to a good story so long as they're not gratuitous. When reading a fantasy novel I want the story to flow and for the events that occur to make sense regarding the context. If I want to read about sex that doesn't fit in with any story line...well, there are places I can go online for that. :p My feeling with anything like sex, nudity, violence, gore, etc, is that it should fit the situation and not be just thrown in or overdone for sheer shock value. Sometimes you need to be more graphic than others, and learning when is the right time to go into detail is the key. Ariel [/QUOTE]

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