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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9395832" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I've got a superhero game sitting beside me. Invisibility is a power in that game. However, never once is it even mentioned that peeping on women is something in the game. Not "you can do this but you will be punished", not "you can do this". Nothing. Silence. Because the baseline assumption is that you are using your invisibility powers to fight crime, not to commit crimes. And the baseline assumption for villains with the power is that they will use it to steal things like priceless jewelry or sneak into corporate meetings to spy on valuable secrets or kidnap a superstar from a backstage to hold him ransom. The thing being pointed out in the OP was that, the assumptions of the writer who felt the need to say that "if you get caught peeping, you will be beat up by angry men" include 1) That the PC will use their abilities to peep on women, 2) That the DM won't just shut them down with a "No. You are not doing that." 3) Subtle but there, the assumption that the woman cannot defend herself. It is sort of like including in the equipment section of the PHB alongside rope, cloth gags, but noting that even if you gag the woman you kidnapped and put in your basement, she still has a 50% chance to signal for help and get you arrested. That detail being added tells me that you expect people to kidnap women and hold them in their basements, why are you assuming that of your player base?</blockquote>

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