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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8678677">These policies guidelines are not new I believe (I don't know when they were added). The new guidelines are the ones about publishers and marketing (those just maybe make these guideline more relevant to publishers). But the guidelines are not strictly about sexual assault or child sexual assault. It is also about "overt political agendas" and "depictions or descriptions of criminal violence against children" (a hag eating a child would seem to fall under a criminal act of violence against a child for example, though I suspect that isn't the spirit of the wording). There is also rules against racist, homophobic and discriminatory content (as well as repugnant views). I think if they are talking about not having racist screeds, few publishers are even interested in that to begin with. But it could be more of an issue if that were to encompass having an NPC who holds racist views (just like you might have a racist character in a novel where the message of the novel is not racist itself). And given that we've had a lot of threads over things like 'are orcs racist' there is that too. I think though they aren't intending these things as I have never seen them enforce these policies in this way. I do think the change in posture towards publishers in the recent guidelines though reminded people that how these guidelines get enforced could change if attitudes or people behind the scenes at OBS change. Here is the actual section from the guidelines:</blockquote>

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