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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 7015506" data-source="post: 7821481"><p>In my now close to 40 years of gaming (will be somewhere in November) I never experienced such things at the table. And I´ve been DMing and playing with all kinds of people from all walks of life in many different games and systems.</p><p>Personally I have certain morale values, that I more or less transfer to the table. Those things considered "mature" content are never explicitly played out or described. it´s mentioned with a sentence or two, but in a polite neutral as possible tone. But never ever it is roleplayed. Period.</p><p>if I read "reviews" about such obviously deranged material like that OSR "Carcosa" supplement, where all kinds of sick stuff is described more or less in detail, then I have to ask myself who was writing that and to what purpose. Certainly many will know what I talk about, but I don´t want to give that piece of crap any more advertising than it deserves.</p><p>An example for me handling such things:</p><p>If for a blood sacrifice has to be made to a dark god for the sake of the ritual, then the PCs arrive just in the moment BEFORE that actually happens - the dark priest has the dagger in hand ready to strike. very cinematic, very tense, but despite everybody knows what will be coming, the actual blood shed didn´t happen yet. The perfect situation for the heroes to act quickly and without great planning and still a tense situation without the gore and splatter.</p><p>the same goes for a prostitute tallking to a PC in the streets. there is little RPing to get the PC into what he wants to do, but no big description about the actual happening.</p><p>Such mature content can be handled more the way Hitchcock did it than nowadays.</p><p>And of course examples like the last one should never ever be present in games where minor aged players are involved. Perido and no discussion about that.</p><p>but otherwise? You fear spiders? I do also, but in games they are one of my fav beasts to throw at the party and I am a true follower of the Spider Queen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 7015506, post: 7821481"] In my now close to 40 years of gaming (will be somewhere in November) I never experienced such things at the table. And I´ve been DMing and playing with all kinds of people from all walks of life in many different games and systems. Personally I have certain morale values, that I more or less transfer to the table. Those things considered "mature" content are never explicitly played out or described. it´s mentioned with a sentence or two, but in a polite neutral as possible tone. But never ever it is roleplayed. Period. if I read "reviews" about such obviously deranged material like that OSR "Carcosa" supplement, where all kinds of sick stuff is described more or less in detail, then I have to ask myself who was writing that and to what purpose. Certainly many will know what I talk about, but I don´t want to give that piece of crap any more advertising than it deserves. An example for me handling such things: If for a blood sacrifice has to be made to a dark god for the sake of the ritual, then the PCs arrive just in the moment BEFORE that actually happens - the dark priest has the dagger in hand ready to strike. very cinematic, very tense, but despite everybody knows what will be coming, the actual blood shed didn´t happen yet. The perfect situation for the heroes to act quickly and without great planning and still a tense situation without the gore and splatter. the same goes for a prostitute tallking to a PC in the streets. there is little RPing to get the PC into what he wants to do, but no big description about the actual happening. Such mature content can be handled more the way Hitchcock did it than nowadays. And of course examples like the last one should never ever be present in games where minor aged players are involved. Perido and no discussion about that. but otherwise? You fear spiders? I do also, but in games they are one of my fav beasts to throw at the party and I am a true follower of the Spider Queen. [/QUOTE]
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