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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roadkill101" data-source="post: 2737465" data-attributes="member: 30952">Never been axed, but I've almost always been the DM.Back during the 1e days, I belonged to my high schools Dungeons & Dragons club (sorta like a Chess club, but we played D&D and other RPG's).  Every Tuesday the school had a scheduled 45 minute Home Room Period, and if you didn't belong to one of the school clubs (Chess, Choir, D&D, FCA, FFA, Muse Machine, etc.) Home Room was just like being in Study Hall (no talking, sit there quietly and do some sort of schoolwork or whatever).The D&D club was run by one of the English teachers ( a Mr. Stoner, just Stoner hereafter)who was into gaming.  Out of approximately 50 student members, he allowed us to form into our own groups while he ran a group of his own.  So long as we were playing an RPG, he left us to our own devices.  It met every other Home Room period.In the 86/87 school year, when I was a Junior, the club had it's first ever female members join the club.  There were two of them, both Seniors and friends with one another, and knew absolutely nothing about RPG's (I figure they joined just to get out of Home Room).Both ended up in my group (I was DM).  Both played female characters.  Near the end of the shool year, the party got captured by a group of orcs.  Once the party was dragged back to the orc lair, general torture and rapantine ensued, as orcs are just that way (as strongly hinted at by the MM and literature).Next time the club met, I was not so pleasantly greeted by Stoner.  Turns out said females felt like I was picking on them personally for being female.  They said something at home which in turn got called into the school and somehow a church(es?) was involved.Stoner read me the riot act wanting to know what I was thinking about having orcs engaging in rapantine.  He didn't like my response about playing them as nasty as their implied portrayal from published sources, mostly because he had to fight the church groups to get the club into the school (whenever it was started, I'd joined as a Freshman).  Only to then fight both the school and the church groups again to keep it going because of my portrayal of orcs, which was not the kind of exposure the game needed in a school setting (I was told that kind of play was fine outside of school).Stoner threatened to he should "Blackball" me from the club.  He didn't, and if I'd thought about it at the time, I coulda threw into his face, he never supervised any of the groups playing, and had no established Guidelines or Rules of Conduct other than we play an RPG.  Which may be the reason I wasn't thrown out of the club.Come my Senior year (87/88), the club was restricted to upper classman only, and Stoner ran the game.  He ran Expedition to the Barrier Peaks with a party of around 25 characters.  I think I rolled my dice maybe 12 times throughout the year (counting club meetings only, of course).Oh and far as the orcs actions went, it was just a simple generalized statement; "The orcs torture and rape your characters.", no details or anything explicit.</blockquote>

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