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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 379464" data-attributes="member: 1210">Maybe it does.&nbsp; But I don't know what you'd call it.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />&nbsp;&nbsp; In any event, I guess I aspire to run a 'mature' game, but I pander to my players to a great extent.&nbsp; I like to get a visceral gut reaction to evil when they encounter it, and sometimes that involves gore or torture, the killing of innocents, etc.; I dunno.&nbsp; I attribute a lot of the tone of my game to the way the players treat it.&nbsp; If you read my story hour, you can see that most of teh funny comes from the actions of the pcs, not the npcs, with some exceptions (like Zenvo playing the spoons).&nbsp; Hm, food for thought though.&nbsp; I like to run something in between a good Stephen King novel and Roger Zelazny; lots of room there, I guess.&nbsp; What I don't like doing is sanitizing things; I want war to be fun in the game but I don't want it to look like fun irl.&nbsp; In fact, think about it, that's what most all of us do.&nbsp; Is invading a cave complex controlled by hideous monsters, killing them all and looting their treasure fun in the game?&nbsp; Heck yeah!&nbsp; But would it be fun irl?&nbsp; NOOOOO!&nbsp; I think it's necessary to keep in mind that what the characters enjoy, and the lives they live, are usually not what the players would enjoy.&nbsp; How many people really go out adventuring in the real world?&nbsp; My upcoming travels are something like what dnd characters do; I am going to wander the world for a while and see what happens.&nbsp; Most people wouldn't dream of doing that, it's risky; I don't have a job while I'm doing it, I may well end up sleeping outside in the rain sometimes, I could get in all kinds of trouble, I won't know people except for a very few places- heck, I could get killed and buried somewhere and nobody'd know about it for months or years or maybe ever.I'm rambling here, but I guess what I'm getting at is that a lot of the things that happen in a dnd game are fun, but wouldn't be if they happened to you.&nbsp; Whatever is fun for the players playing, is prolly a lot less fun for the characters.&nbsp; (&quot;OW!&nbsp; I just got fire breathed on me!&quot;)&nbsp; As long as the players can have fun with a situation, even if it's truly horrible irl- heck, I'm all for it.John Waters indeed... snicker... I just saw one of his flicks at a trash film festival a few weeks back, too...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 379464, member: 1210"] Maybe it does. But I don't know what you'd call it. :cool: In any event, I guess I aspire to run a 'mature' game, but I pander to my players to a great extent. I like to get a visceral gut reaction to evil when they encounter it, and sometimes that involves gore or torture, the killing of innocents, etc.; I dunno. I attribute a lot of the tone of my game to the way the players treat it. If you read my story hour, you can see that most of teh funny comes from the actions of the pcs, not the npcs, with some exceptions (like Zenvo playing the spoons). Hm, food for thought though. I like to run something in between a good Stephen King novel and Roger Zelazny; lots of room there, I guess. What I don't like doing is sanitizing things; I want war to be fun in the game but I don't want it to look like fun irl. In fact, think about it, that's what most all of us do. Is invading a cave complex controlled by hideous monsters, killing them all and looting their treasure fun in the game? Heck yeah! But would it be fun irl? NOOOOO! I think it's necessary to keep in mind that what the characters enjoy, and the lives they live, are usually not what the players would enjoy. How many people really go out adventuring in the real world? My upcoming travels are something like what dnd characters do; I am going to wander the world for a while and see what happens. Most people wouldn't dream of doing that, it's risky; I don't have a job while I'm doing it, I may well end up sleeping outside in the rain sometimes, I could get in all kinds of trouble, I won't know people except for a very few places- heck, I could get killed and buried somewhere and nobody'd know about it for months or years or maybe ever. I'm rambling here, but I guess what I'm getting at is that a lot of the things that happen in a dnd game are fun, but wouldn't be if they happened to you. Whatever is fun for the players playing, is prolly a lot less fun for the characters. ("OW! I just got fire breathed on me!") As long as the players can have fun with a situation, even if it's truly horrible irl- heck, I'm all for it. John Waters indeed... snicker... I just saw one of his flicks at a trash film festival a few weeks back, too... [/QUOTE]

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