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<blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 4662576" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Ok. (Emphasis is mine). I asked this question earlier--upthread--where I gave examples of how rape is referenced rather *frequently* in my campaigns. Your commentary here is a good enough prod to my questions, though. Perhaps I am not understanding precisely many of the tangents of argument in this thread. Perhaps you, Arscott, can help explain to me what is being argued, what I am arguing--and then whatever my misunderstanding seems to be. In light of my earlier post, how does my common inclusion of rape in the game make it &quot;more juvenile, not less&quot;? Additionally, how does my frequent inclusion of rape in the campaign &quot;make adults act like children&quot;?DR. STRANGEMONKEY:How would my frequent inclusion of rape in my campaigns serve as me making the trauma of rape into a &quot;recreation&quot;?Thanks, my friends, for you commentary and input. I hope that my argument for including rape on a rather frequent basis is clearly understood. My campaigns are quite mature, very medieval, with of course lots of magic involved. The world the campaign is set in is a violent, brutal world of terrifying monsters and hordes of barbaric, savage humanoids--not to mention the vast hordes of dark, unwashed humanity that have been seduced by evil and darkness, and fully embraced the dark whisperings of evil--rape, slavery, murder, brutal torture, and the grinding despair and oppression of millions of human beings is an ongoing, daily reality for many in the campaign world. And the player characters are involved in dealing with these topics and aspects of reality on a frequent basis. It's something of an exaggeration, of course, but players in my campaign could almost easily ask, &quot;Who isn't being seduced, enslaved, raped, brutally tortured, murdered, or otherwise somehow crushed by the evil boot of despair and oppression?&quot;<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SHARK, post: 4662576, member: 1131"] Greetings! Ok. (Emphasis is mine). I asked this question earlier--upthread--where I gave examples of how rape is referenced rather *frequently* in my campaigns. Your commentary here is a good enough prod to my questions, though. Perhaps I am not understanding precisely many of the tangents of argument in this thread. Perhaps you, Arscott, can help explain to me what is being argued, what I am arguing--and then whatever my misunderstanding seems to be. In light of my earlier post, how does my common inclusion of rape in the game make it "more juvenile, not less"? Additionally, how does my frequent inclusion of rape in the campaign "make adults act like children"? DR. STRANGEMONKEY: How would my frequent inclusion of rape in my campaigns serve as me making the trauma of rape into a "recreation"? Thanks, my friends, for you commentary and input. I hope that my argument for including rape on a rather frequent basis is clearly understood. My campaigns are quite mature, very medieval, with of course lots of magic involved. The world the campaign is set in is a violent, brutal world of terrifying monsters and hordes of barbaric, savage humanoids--not to mention the vast hordes of dark, unwashed humanity that have been seduced by evil and darkness, and fully embraced the dark whisperings of evil--rape, slavery, murder, brutal torture, and the grinding despair and oppression of millions of human beings is an ongoing, daily reality for many in the campaign world. And the player characters are involved in dealing with these topics and aspects of reality on a frequent basis. It's something of an exaggeration, of course, but players in my campaign could almost easily ask, "Who isn't being seduced, enslaved, raped, brutally tortured, murdered, or otherwise somehow crushed by the evil boot of despair and oppression?":lol: Semper Fidelis, SHARK [/QUOTE]

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