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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vince_Snetterton" data-source="post: 8459834" data-attributes="member: 7033114">Unfortunately, of that list you just created, I can see at least 4 that are socially acceptable in parts of the world, some of them across almost the entire planet.I will respond with an example of my own. Here is my trigger warning. Don't read this if you have phobias:Y[ISPOILER]ou and a friend are hunting a deer down a game trail.Suddenly, the ground at your feet erupts with giant insect head, half-ant, half preying mantis, pushing through, knocking you both off your feet. .From its mouth, a stream of acid spurts forth, hitting your friend full in the face. He dies screaming.You are not that lucky.Before you can escape, its mandibles clamp down on your ankle, almost severing your foot.It drags you back under the earth, into its lair of tunnels. Finally, you reach a chamber, but you have no idea what the size is, as there is no light.You feel a sharp sting in your abdomen, then nothing else, realizing you are paralyzed.You lose track of time, drifting in and out of consciousness.Then you begin to get feeling back, though you still cannot move.  You sense movement in your abdomen.That movement quickly becomes discomfort, then agony.The Ankheg's eggs have hatched, and the larvae are eating their way out of you.[/ISPOILER]Now, no sane person would ever tell that kind of story to a child. The game is marketed to kids. But what I just described is a perfectly reasonable depiction of a char dying horribly in a game of D&D. And NO, I don't play the game with kids, for obvious reasons.That is just one of hundreds of monsters in the D&D universe, some that have far worse outcomes.The game has ALWAYS been dark. How exactly do you propose sanitizing it, unless you put trigger warnings on everything?</blockquote>

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