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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9387915" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Eh.  I think the gap between back then and today is that today, whether we use aggressive language or not, people are less shy about simply drawing table rules and restrictions and expecting their follow players not to act out juvenile sex offender fantasies.Certainly part of the assumptions behind the article are a greater level of societal tolerance for that sort of behavior (particularly in fiction, like the aforementioned Revenge of the Nerds or Porky's), and part of it is the then-more prevalent paradigm of running a game as a neutral world simulation, and enforcing consequences for misbehavior diegetically rather than through straightforward out of game conversation.  This follows from stuff like Gary's advice to strike misbehaving players with bolts from the blue.I do think it is a better and more useful approach to handle these sorts of things with adult, out of game conversations about expectations and boundaries, rather than refusing to discuss them and only imposing sanctions in-game, which  can come off as either passive aggressive or tacitly approving of these kind of shenanigans.</blockquote>