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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MechaPilot" data-source="post: 6869977" data-attributes="member: 82779">I would suggest that it's the DM handwaving death into capture.  I've handwaved death into capture several times, but that's because I think party death is boring (it really does cause the game to grind to an immediate halt).  However, when I do it, I don't have the PCs raped by their captors.  I'll have them ransomed back to their families (or a wealthy patron).  I'll have them stripped of gear and left for dead.  I'll have them geased to carry out a mission for their captors.  I'll turn the jailbreak into a mini adventure.  In short, things that keep the characters alive but further the story of the characters.  I think many tables have a "fade to black" preference for things they aren't comfortable with.  For some this is just the actual sex scene, for others it also includes the preceding seduction.  I know that I personally fade to black for interrogation scenes: I've found that roleplaying interrogation scenes all too often turns into torture-porn.  I also fade to black for sex scenes: whether I do so or not for the seduction/romance part depends on the type of campaign that I'm running at the time.Sure.  I don't know if you want to start a different thread or continue here (the subjects are somewhat related as you say), but I'll start by talking about men playing female characters.Men playing female characters can lead to some offensive stereotypes at the table (emphasis on "can."  I am definitely not saying "will").  As one example, I recall one man (the step-brother of a friend who had joined us for a few game sessions) who played a female character at the same table as myself.  He played her fairly normally, and then after a few in-game days the character started fighting with the rest of the party (mostly verbal, but at one point physically).  When the DM, who was the male friend of mine, asked his step-brother what was up with the character's sudden personality change, the step-brother replied, "I'm acting in character!  She's just on the rag."  More than one facepalm ensued.Occasional offensive stereotypes aside, I generally like when men play female characters.  When a man has a female character and he is actively trying to be/stay in character, you often get the truest glimpse of what that man thinks a woman is really like.  It's always particularly enlightening when those character choices include wild mood/emotional swings, sluttyness/nymphomania, or being a cold-hearted <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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