Nudity in RPG books?

[Dogbrain]

As a pagan we belive in sex and nudity as a good thing not bad like the others think.

Typical religious bigotry. Believe it or not, neopaganism did not invent sex. Likewise, contrary to your prejudices, "the others" do not universally condemn sex nor nudity.

 

[Dogbrain]

Remember, all the cool kids are born nude!

Jerry Fallwell was born nude. Savanarola was born nude. Therefore, nudity leads to narrowmindedness and religious intolerance.

 

[wizardneedsfood]

So THAT'S what my problem is...curse being born with a comfy shirt...

Yeah, and I came out in my slick wanna be skater shorts too. No wonder I'm such an emo kid.

 

[resistor]

I don't have a problem with nudity that's non-sexual is the author/publisher feels it contributes to the product. However, I doubt there are many situations where it does: including nudity opens a whole new can of worms by cutting out younger players, possibly limiting which stores will carry it, opening itself to criticism from fundamentalists, etc.

So, while I don't personally have a problem with it, I don't think it's a good plan in most instances either.

 

[megamania]

So long as its not every image and not done just to be done I'm fine with it. To much uptight moral bible thumping bothers me BUT I don't wish for immature kids to just get DnD to see the pictures. As with everything- moderation is required. Use common sense.

 

[Piratecat]

Typical religious bigotry.

Please avoid both religious comments and insults.

 

[Dogbrain]

Please avoid both religious comments and insults.

"As a pagan we belive in sex and nudity as a good thing not bad like the others think." gets no moderator response.

 

[Piratecat]

"As a pagan we belive in sex and nudity as a good thing not bad like the others think." gets no moderator response.

No response like "avoid religious comments"? Dogbrain, you were the "and insults" side of the equation. I thought that was pretty clear, but my apologies for not making it more explicit. Frankly, when someone posts something you consider offensive the right thing to do is to alert moderators, NOT to post angry insults or rhetoric yourself. It's a different approach from places like usenet, but it works quite well here.

In the future, when you wish to discuss a moderator comment please do so in Meta or by email instead of posting in the same thread.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Nudity of any kind doesn't bother me BUT there is a time and place for everything, define nudity? I ask because it means different things in different places, in SC pastees (nipple cover) and a thong is not nude, just a thong is just topless (indecent) not nude (you just got to love the law).

BoEF had nudity but the subject matter in the art was not what I would call art and while the book is not bad as rules the nudity within subject matter is.

What I am saying I guess is if done right, in a pleasing manner, there is no problem.

 

[Zappo]

Sigurd: the way I interpret the poll, you could fit the second option fairly well. All of your issues are sex-related (except maybe the fourth - which deals with "other people, not us"), the second option says "no sexuality", I think it fits the bill. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding.

Anyway, my opinion is that nudity in RPGs should not be artificially inflated, nor artificially reduced. There should be just as much nudity in art and descriptions as the setting should have. Since I believe that the current situation is slightly unbalanced in favor of "correctness", I chose the fourth option.