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<blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4699525" data-attributes="member: 19083"><p>"Real" horrible stuff is partially what I play D&D to get away <em>from</em>.</p><p></p><p>Mature doesn't have to mean "real-life horrible stuff that messes you up".</p><p></p><p>As a DM I love over the top violence and mayhem, coarse langauge is a norm in my locale', and I don't think when someone's trying to gut you, you'd say:</p><p><em>"Oh goodness, don't stick me with that!"</em></p><p>No bloody way, lol. You'd be too busy to say anything or calling him a rampant goblin bodger! <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" /></p><p></p><p>Over the top violence is fun, it's not *real*. Arms and limbs get whacked off...nuts get kicked (or chopped off, long story about a drow swashbuckler nicknamed "Sack Slasher"...'nuff said!!)</p><p>Well all that goes on in RL but in D&D, it's not real, it's fun.</p><p>See "Conan the Destroyer" for great, over the top, fun, D&D-style battles! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>prostitutes, boozing, gambling, drugs, weird cults and fetishes are par-for-the-course in D&D!</p><p>Hey, why do you think heroes go into bars, just for a JOB?! <em>Get real!!!!</em> lol</p><p></p><p>You know that "gimp" scene in "Pulp Fiction"? Kind of makes me think of many D&D back-alley dives, muhaha!</p><p></p><p>heroes coming back to town, get laid, gamble and booze the night away cause it's <em>fun</em>! </p><p>There's no TV, few folk induge in politics (too damned dangerous!), religion or arcane mysteries (<em>booooring</em>!), and even those that do also like more mundane vices.</p><p>There's no TV, no internet, no...D&D! *gasps in horror!*</p><p>So what do folk do?</p><p>Explains the birth rate, don't it? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sadism etc I abhor, so just desrcribe the scenario/basics, often, the imagination IS much better and all that's needed.</p><p></p><p>Fear and horror were well described and used in the original Ravenloft.</p><p>Horror is a LOT more than just "Hannibal Lecktor" stuff. You go out in some of the eerie places in RL and you'll get the creeps, all right.</p><p></p><p>"Mature" doesn't have to mean "Purile". And "mature" is usually just normal, believable fun <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silverblade The Ench, post: 4699525, member: 19083"] "Real" horrible stuff is partially what I play D&D to get away [I]from[/I]. Mature doesn't have to mean "real-life horrible stuff that messes you up". As a DM I love over the top violence and mayhem, coarse langauge is a norm in my locale', and I don't think when someone's trying to gut you, you'd say: [I]"Oh goodness, don't stick me with that!"[/I] No bloody way, lol. You'd be too busy to say anything or calling him a rampant goblin bodger! :p Over the top violence is fun, it's not *real*. Arms and limbs get whacked off...nuts get kicked (or chopped off, long story about a drow swashbuckler nicknamed "Sack Slasher"...'nuff said!!) Well all that goes on in RL but in D&D, it's not real, it's fun. See "Conan the Destroyer" for great, over the top, fun, D&D-style battles! :) prostitutes, boozing, gambling, drugs, weird cults and fetishes are par-for-the-course in D&D! Hey, why do you think heroes go into bars, just for a JOB?! [I]Get real!!!![/I] lol You know that "gimp" scene in "Pulp Fiction"? Kind of makes me think of many D&D back-alley dives, muhaha! heroes coming back to town, get laid, gamble and booze the night away cause it's [I]fun[/I]! There's no TV, few folk induge in politics (too damned dangerous!), religion or arcane mysteries ([I]booooring[/I]!), and even those that do also like more mundane vices. There's no TV, no internet, no...D&D! *gasps in horror!* So what do folk do? Explains the birth rate, don't it? ;) Sadism etc I abhor, so just desrcribe the scenario/basics, often, the imagination IS much better and all that's needed. Fear and horror were well described and used in the original Ravenloft. Horror is a LOT more than just "Hannibal Lecktor" stuff. You go out in some of the eerie places in RL and you'll get the creeps, all right. "Mature" doesn't have to mean "Purile". And "mature" is usually just normal, believable fun ;) [/QUOTE]
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