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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 279195" data-attributes="member: 1288">Well, I thought the subject of cannibalism among PCs was an interesting one, and I've gotten P-Kitty's permission to reopen the topic, so long as it's not a poll.  (Thanks, PK! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)  And that's good in a way, actually, because it gives me the chance to delve a little deeper than the other thread was going.  (No offense intended to Edena, who opened the original thread in the first place.)If you've played (or allowed) a cannibal character, how did it impact the game?  Presumably, it colored the PC's interactions with NPCs (unless the entire culture was cannibalistic, of course).  But how did the other players/PCs react?  Did they want to consider it an evil act automatically?  Did they react with revulsion?  Did they just accept it as a trait of the character?I'd like to include more details of this sort in my campaigns and with my PCs, but sometimes it's hard to tell how people will react.  With the players in my old group in Houston, there seemed to be a sharp line of demarcation.  Anything they can accept, they can accept calmly and with aplomb.  Any behavior that crosses that line, they refuse to accept in a fellow PC under any circumstances, even to the point of asking the player to change characters.  (Can't say yet how my Austin group behaves, since we haven't had as much time.)  As it happened, I was almost disappointed at how quickly they got used to my wife's cannibal character.So how did things go when you did it?</blockquote>

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