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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grainger" data-source="post: 6506561" data-attributes="member: 6779234">I'm surprised no-one's said it already, but I wouldn't call the sex in Game of Thrones (the TV series; can't comment on the books) "adult". Don't get me wrong, I like GoT, but I'm not a fan of the sex scenes; I don't want to start a political argument, but I find them (the ones I've seen so far anyway) pretty exploitative.I gloss over sex in my campaign (if it even comes up) because it's not a part of the fantasy which influences my game (and even with GoT, by and large, I think the sex scenes could be glossed over - we all know why they're there). I also don't really want to hear my friends' sexual tastes - I wouldn't talk about it in detail with them - so I don't want to hear about it in a game. When I was much younger, a detailed sex scene did come up in a game that I was playing in, and I found it very, very uncomfortable. *** Can't. Unhear. It. *** That's not to say that player characters can't have sex in my game - it's just I don't want it described in explicit detail - we can leave them at the proverbial bedroom door.I probably wouldn't dwell on torture either - it's a bit grimdark for my game. I have occasionally hinted (or even stated) that NPCs tortured someone, but again it's off-screen, and I would usually do this to indicate they're a villain or someone not to be entirely trusted or comfortable with. I doubt I'd go into explicit detail of someone being tortured in front of the PCs. I also think there's a qualitative difference between mentioning gore in a fight or trap context and having another an NPC inflicit pain in a calculating way. As I said, over the grimdark line for me; it can happen off-screen. On the question of PCs torturing NPCs - if a PC started doing this, I'd start to question whether they were heroic enough for my campaign. They can have shades of grey, they don't have to be Peter Perfect, but there's a limit.</blockquote>

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