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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 7957358" data-attributes="member: 32740">About the only personal experience I have with it is back in the latter half of the '70's when I first started playing.  There was one player who was... just too enthusiastic about his character's interaction with a prostitute in game.  The DM let it go at first but the player wasn't taking hints about the idea that this really wasn't why we all got together - to share in your character's personal debauchery.  The DM stopped it quite cold with a snide comment along the general lines that he wasn't going to be narrating the intimate details of that PC/NPC interaction nor rolling dice to determine performance.  And we were all obnoxious, politically incorrect, immature teens at that time.  It stuck with me ever since that not just the topic of sexual encounters but a lot of other things just flat out WERE NOT APPROPRIATE even in such a group that already knew each other reasonably well from school.Topics such as child abuse, sexual molestation or assault, rape, real-world racial stereotypes or intended parodies, and extreme description of violence and gore (because after all, this IS a game where violence and gore is somewhat part-and-parcel but there's no need to WALLOW in it) would be among the straight-up taboos, but is hardly limited to them.  Your suggestion about being cautious when it comes to common phobias is also well-taken.Any ADULT DM that runs games for players they don't personally know, should know better than to unilaterally decide to head down those darker paths.  It's just a matter of not being an inconsiderate jerk.  You wouldn't read 50 Shades of Grey aloud to your mother - why in hell would you think it'd be okay to just full-on narrate details of rape to friends in D&D or even mere acquaintances?I'd guess it stems from the history of geek social fallacies and related baggage.  DM's who do this don't do it out of spite - they do it out of social ignorance.  The simply haven't yet fully learned appropriate boundaries and subject matter in groups.  I'm no champion of political correctness (if anything I champion against it) but THIS kind of thing in RPG's really has been tolerated far too long.  Now that it's going out on Youtube and becoming an actual component of mainstream culture it really needs to be stomped down HARSHLY. Kids and teens get leeway because we don't necessarily expect them to yet have a full grasp of such things, but adults get no excuses if they pull this stuff.</blockquote>

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