CONTROVERSIAL QUESTION: Difficult Subject Matter.

[Loren Pechtel]

The Book of Erotic Fantasy ( the book I assume you are referencing) doesn't deal with only forced interactions. In fact it merely nods to them as a distinct possibility as the book deals with sexual material as a whole in the D&D world. The most important I believe is the alignments attitudes towards sexual material. It is actually a great book that has rules for allowing your characters to have children and I believe dice rolls to determine their stats and whatnot. Like half-breeds for example.

No, I believe the book being talked about was the Book of Vile Darkness. It was about evil. I don't recall any discussion of rape but it's certainly something evil characters would do.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

it double posted for some reason

Given the OP......twins? <G>

 

[Ettin]

No, I believe the book being talked about was the Book of Vile Darkness.

Naw, originally I was referencing a post about the BoEF. I don't remember anything about that book except I couldn't keep a straight face while reading it, though.

 

[PureGoldx58]

Naw, originally I was referencing a post about the BoEF. I don't remember anything about that book except I couldn't keep a straight face while reading it, though.

I remember a lot about it because I had a week long argument with my DM about my Lawful Good Monk being able to..."partake in wenches" and this book in a very realistic and jovial way handles the topic that can be awkward *read as see above* and off-putting to most D&D players.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I had a week long argument with my DM about my Lawful Good Monk being able to..."partake in wenches"

Hm. You DID tell him that not every religious/monastic tradition has celibacy as a requirement, didn't you? That's mostly a thing we Judeo/Christians deal with. Not only did many religions not restrict the sexual lives of their clergy, in certain faiths, sexual intercourse was a requirement of some of their rituals and traditions.

 

[Greenfield]

Lawful characters tell the truth, keep their word, respect authority, honor tradition, and judge those who fall short of their
duties.

Lawful Good doesn't have to align with our current views on either "Lawful" or "Good". Aligning with the accepted rules of society, the traditional values if you will, is what matters, and that is specific to the society they live in.

More than a few societies have considered intercourse as a perfectly natural thing, and relatively casual. Marriage was for raising a family, but wasn't required for simple fun.

Japanese, for example, used to consider a little roll in the hay as a way to clear the mind and relieve tensions on the night before a battle. And trust me, nobody was more "lawful" than the Samurai warriors of the Shogun era.

Many a noble had a number of concubines, and a Harem was almost required, socially, if you were a successful man of means in the mid-east. And how many wives did King Solomon have?

During the Renaissance, the Roman Catholic Church owned a number of brothels in England, for while they officially disapproved of pre-marital sex, they also believed that if a man didn't release regularly he would suffer health problems.

In the Roman Empire, the temples of the fertility goddesses functionally *were* brothels.

So, as long as your Monk was willing to take responsibility for any, ahem, results of his pleasures, there's nothing inherently unlawful in enjoying a night well spent.

Now, here's the bad news. The DM decides what the accepted standards and traditions of society are, so if he says that tavern girls are off limits for lawful characters...

 

[PureGoldx58]

A lawful good character can have a one night stand if they are open and honest about the event that will take place and make sure the other party knows of it. My character is the only survivor of his Monastery and a saint of Garl Glittergold, his society is whatever Garl sees fit...and he is crazy.

That said, The book has some nice views on alignment and sexual material, the worst being chaotic evil.

 

[Seonaid]

Just flipping through the book, I see that a close person to the PC could have committed suicide or could have been sacrificed to a god or demon. If you can have stuff like that, you sure as heck can include rape.

Do you honestly not see a difference between suicide and sacrifice and rape?

 

[S'mon]

Re OP

IMC it's very unlikely the female dwarf would be impregnated, dwarves don't get pregant easily. If aware of it, the female dwarf would probably abort it. If it was born and not too obviously Orcish looking, the dwarves would probably have it adopted within the clan and raised by a foster mother. If it looked like an Orc they would kill it.

 

[Water Bob]

Do you honestly not see a difference between suicide and sacrifice and rape?

You're inferring that rape is "worse" than suicide or ritual sacrifice?

I think they're all three very horrible things that can happen to people. I'm sure that some would argue the reverse of what you're inferring--that murder and death are "worse" for a person than a victim of rape because the rape victim still lives.

So, to answer your question: There's not much difference in suicide, sacrifice, and rape in that they are all heinous acts that can happen to a victim. In my view, all three are worthy of the death sentence (though, I think in most states in the US, rape would hold a lighter sentence than ritual sacrifice).

Curious: How do you differentiate rape from ritual sacrifice and suicide?