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<blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 4698605" data-attributes="member: 891">GSL: No sex. No gore. No racism.Pathfinder: No &quot;adult content,&quot; offensive, or inappropriate for minors.- technically, Pathfinder is more restrictive in that it is vaguer - and thus could capture more, but it allows-by-omission racist content, such as the d20 Solid! (blaxploitation) book that came out a few years ago. It might also allow gore - which in the US is not seen as adult. Note however that by some European standards it might allow mild nudity but not allow gore or (in a very few places) racism...- The problem with vagueness - what does it mean to whom?MY first instinct is to say the D&amp;D brand itself has no major meaning outside of people already in the hobby, at this point. But I'm not as certain of that as I'd like to be. Completely useless for a larger perspective anecdote: Two weeks ago I was in a game store and a woman about my age walks in and asks the store rep if they &quot;still make that D&amp;D game&quot; she knew of as a kid. The rough story being she wanted to get her 13 year old to stop playing online computer games, and instead play something he had to use &quot;reading and social skills' for.(We'll ignore the very social aspect of an MMO for a second here, that was her point to make, not mine.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kichwas, post: 4698605, member: 891"] GSL: No sex. No gore. No racism. Pathfinder: No "adult content," offensive, or inappropriate for minors. - technically, Pathfinder is more restrictive in that it is vaguer - and thus could capture more, but it allows-by-omission racist content, such as the d20 Solid! (blaxploitation) book that came out a few years ago. It might also allow gore - which in the US is not seen as adult. Note however that by some European standards it might allow mild nudity but not allow gore or (in a very few places) racism... - The problem with vagueness - what does it mean to whom? MY first instinct is to say the D&D brand itself has no major meaning outside of people already in the hobby, at this point. But I'm not as certain of that as I'd like to be. Completely useless for a larger perspective anecdote: Two weeks ago I was in a game store and a woman about my age walks in and asks the store rep if they "still make that D&D game" she knew of as a kid. The rough story being she wanted to get her 13 year old to stop playing online computer games, and instead play something he had to use "reading and social skills' for. (We'll ignore the very social aspect of an MMO for a second here, that was her point to make, not mine.) [/QUOTE]

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