Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 422110" data-attributes="member: 2480">I think that ultimately you have to be guided by your players, moderated by what you, yourself, feel comfortable with as DM.Most of the people that I game with are in their late 20s or early 30s, so for me it's not a question of having to worry about dealing with minors. Even so, two groups play quite differently. One group is definitely more 'sanitised' than the other - we gloss over much of the sexual activity and even the violence. But that's because the game focusses mostly on the interplay between the PCs and the key NPCs. Swearing can be very 'graphic' with them, though, since that's the way some of the characters speak!On the other hand, the other group I DM for prefers a more graphic style. There combat is grisly and I include a great deal of background stuff, pointing out the incidence of disease, deformity and spiritual degradation that some people suffer. Likewise sexual encounters can be descriptive - not to the degree of 'what goes where' so much as how the encounter plays out. In that sense, it's like any other intense role-play encounter with an NPC. I don't feel embarrassed by this interaction and nor do the players. I hope it's because we aren't approaching the matter in a puerile fashion, but rather recognising character drives.I enjoy DMing for both groups, and it  is they, not I, who have dictated the style. I guess I am saying that no-one should tell you that it's 'wrong' to approach the game more graphically - that doesn't necessarily make it sensationalist and pornographic as some might imply.</blockquote>

Verification