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<blockquote data-quote="Mercutio01" data-source="post: 5918464" data-attributes="member: 37277">Interesting. Jon's suggested list of guidelines hits all of my wickets.As for violence/gore/etc, I voted for a PG-13 rating. To me, R treads too far and ends up with graphic nudity, splattered heads all over the page, and disemboweled victims screaming obscenities. PG-13 allows for just a hint of nudity (side boob, maybe a nipple--in context of course), death happens on screen, but is stripped of a lot of the actual gore that might be present, and the curse words stop at &quot;damn&quot; and maybe a &quot;sh-t&quot; or two.Taking &quot;A Game of Thrones&quot; for an example -- it is decidedly rated R (or TV-MA, as the case may be--same thing, really), and that's more graphic than what I want to see in D&amp;D game books. On the flipside you have PG movies/tv shows like &quot;GI Joe&quot; &quot;Korra&quot; and &quot;Thundercats.&quot; The first is so PG (probably would get a TV-G) as to be borderline G. The latter two trend towards the middle of PG (TV-PG, I believe), but there's still no deaths on-screen, never any blood at all, and there aren't even simulated curses.And D&amp;D definitely has death, bladed weapons that actually hit home, cuts, bruises, etc. So that was my justification for PG-13/TV-14.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercutio01, post: 5918464, member: 37277"] Interesting. Jon's suggested list of guidelines hits all of my wickets. As for violence/gore/etc, I voted for a PG-13 rating. To me, R treads too far and ends up with graphic nudity, splattered heads all over the page, and disemboweled victims screaming obscenities. PG-13 allows for just a hint of nudity (side boob, maybe a nipple--in context of course), death happens on screen, but is stripped of a lot of the actual gore that might be present, and the curse words stop at "damn" and maybe a "sh-t" or two. Taking "A Game of Thrones" for an example -- it is decidedly rated R (or TV-MA, as the case may be--same thing, really), and that's more graphic than what I want to see in D&D game books. On the flipside you have PG movies/tv shows like "GI Joe" "Korra" and "Thundercats." The first is so PG (probably would get a TV-G) as to be borderline G. The latter two trend towards the middle of PG (TV-PG, I believe), but there's still no deaths on-screen, never any blood at all, and there aren't even simulated curses. And D&D definitely has death, bladed weapons that actually hit home, cuts, bruises, etc. So that was my justification for PG-13/TV-14. [/QUOTE]

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