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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samloyal23" data-source="post: 6500143" data-attributes="member: 21432">Baloney! I have seen video games where players were allowed to rape and torture people. There have been books written about the idea of sex in RPGs. The only difference is that RPGs are a newer medium than books or the cinema. It is time for RPGs to diversify and grow up. Why NOT have a game based on a show like Veronica Mars or CSI? People watch those shows in prime time and they deal with real life criminal behaviour. Veronica lost her virginity at a party after being roofied. Finding the guy who did it was a major story arc for the series. No one led protests against the show or tried to get it banned. There was no graphic sex and it was handled maturely and the writing and acting won critical acclaim. Take a look at the book Charnel Houses of Europe: The-Shoah for Wraith: The Oblivion, that entire supplement is devoted to role-playing victims of the Holocaust. That is about as grim and heavy as you can get. No giggles or squeals in this game. It was produced for a mature audience, you do not want 3rd graders playing this game. So what? It was brilliantly done. An RPG can handle any subject and be paced for any specific level of sophistication, it just has to be written well and marketed to the correct niche.</blockquote>