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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 370014" data-attributes="member: 891">There's a difference between rape in fiction and rape in roleplay.In roleplay, especially when it's good; you are -there- with your character feeling and experiencing what they feel and experience. Put in a rape scene and it can get personal very fast. You can very easily leave one or more players feeling very upset and shell shocked after such a scene.Put it in when you have someone in the group who is a survivor or close to a survivor and it can be traumatic or worse.If you really feel it to be needed, you should clear it way ahead of time. A group desiring dark themes should sit down and work out their comfort zones before play, so everyone can avoid hitting on topics that risk bringing a person back into a real world traumatic event or even just making the experience of the game wholly unenjoyable.I've had rape themes shoved down my throat by three DMs over the years, and I didn't appreciate it on any of these occaisions. In the first two it resulted in the end of friendships and me leaving groups behind. The third is more recent and is something I am still dealing with how I wish to address. It was discussed and I presmed dropped, but inuendos to it still linger. I'm not a rape survivor myself, but I'm close to a number of them (both men and women).</blockquote>