Sex, Violence, Drugs and other naughty things

[Fenes]

My campaigns have sex, drugs and violence, but usually neither is graphic, with violence coming the closest thanks to detailed descriptions in some cases.

Sex is, with a cleric of a love/lust goddess as party leader, an important part of the campaign, but stays with seduction/flirting as far as details go.

Drugs are around, and are used by NPCs mostly. The party encountered an opium addict lately, as an example, thrown in as a red herring (they observed the opium deals, thinking it was the traitor they were hunting).

 

[Hand of Evil]

Sex is a side barred item, not graphic, just some roles away from the table and information passed on to the player, know what I mean.

Drugs are common but the effect is controlled by me, the DM, and is ulgy. Player may see it as an edge but side effects can come into play the next season or decreases in abilities if a habit forms.

Violence is colorful but not too graphic, not like WFRP, but that is system.

 

[Thanee]

I'd say, in a similar way you see it in movies these days (not THOSE movies ), hollywood movies, for example. Mostly tasteful and not overdone. Definitely not disturbing, but also not PG rated.

Depending on how important it is to the story, a romance can certainly get a fair amount of spotlight time, but intimacies aren't described in detail.

Drugs are used sparingly, except for ale and wine, of course. But those ain't drugs, right?

For example, one of my characters once was carousing on a grand festival after having a lot of fun there and was so drunk (which is rather unusual, to be honest), that she woke up the next morning without any knowledge of what happened. The only hints were, that she was split naked, like the guy next to her (who happened to be the captain of the dwarvenball (think rugby) team, we lost to in the finals, because that damn guy had three 20's in a row ). I don't really think anything happened there, tho, it was just way too obvious...

Violence isn't overdone, but it's a natural part of combat, so if you get hit by a greataxe for 30 points of damage, you will have a rather deep wound.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Boddha]

No holds barred, but being as most of the groups I play with are part of the same larger group that have been playing on/off for fifteen plus years most of us are aware and respectful of each others varying standards.
Graphic violence tends to be the biggie though, with drug use (except of course for alchohol) not as much of an issue in fantasy (whole other story in Cyberpunk/Modern type games) and sex does have a tendency to get glossed over (but who really wants a blow by blow description of what happens when you make that seduction roll?).

 

[diaglo]

It is all open for use.

Sex
Drugs
and Rock n' Roll

rape, pillage, and burn

mayhem, maim, cripple, mutilate, batter, mangle

you name it. it is there.

 

[Arrgh! Mark!]

Current campaign: rather gritty to be honest.

Sex: Glossed over. More 'Assuming it happens' more than anything else.

Drugs: Most of the characters are half drunk most of the time and completely pissed in town. Various lotus wines and powders are taken whever they are rich enough to afford such luxuries; otherwise simpler plants are found for them. (This isn't Haka, is it? 'You think I'd sell Haka to a slayer such as you?') They get to suffer the rather unpleasant side effects; shivering fits, violent bowel movements, etc. I gave some trivial bonuses to begin with; the players think the bonuses still happen.

But as there's so much terrain and travel, the characters tend to throw it off before they hit the next city (luckily enough!)

Violence: Graphic, Bloody and as correct to historical weaponsplay as I can describe. The players seem to think it's good.

When one of the characters split a japanese hot-spring monkeys head open (long story) the player was rather dismayed at the description of hot combat and blood - I asked what she thought real combat would look like - a quick struggle with nasty killing manovers calculated for speed and efficiency or nice, letting your opponent swing as you hit him in such a way he falls with flowers falling about him?

She played on and enjoyed the game in the end, but all these things are for different sub-genres of fantasy and I think whats important is the players feel comfortable with it.

 

[fusangite]

I've used drug addiction to good effect on a number of occaisions. In a past campagin, the lizard people were being captured and enslaved, then addicted to a drug that made them happy in their servitude. The PCs found and destroyed the largest plantation of the addictive plant.

Your party joined the Drug War!? Say it isn't so Buttercup!

 

[kmdietri]

Sex: Very little of it occurs, and always off-screen. Anything else would weird-out my all male group. Of course female villains always seem to be smoking hot...

Drugs: Only used in my campaigns once and smuggling was the focus of that campaign. It was a very successful and enjoyable campaign but all the characters did something stupid and all but one died so it ended.

Violence: Actually pretty tame, the odd time violence if played up in combat but most of the time combat is more about strategy then carnage.

 

[Desdichado]

Sex: I don't really shy away from the issue, but I also don't make it the highlight of the session. None of us wants to roleplay graphical sex scenes with each other, but the fact that sex exists, in all its varieties, is great for plot. But so far, it hasn't been much of an issue either way.

Drugs: There are drugs in my campaign, but most of what the PCs have found are freakin' scary ones, so they've not really taken them. They haven't gone out of their way to look for others, other than alcohol, but they could if they wanted.

Violence: Occasionally I'll graphically describe violence. Doing it all the time is tedious, though. But when I do it, it's often quite horrific. One PC had a vision of a human sacrifice being performed recently and shortly afterwards they saw the aftereffects of it.

Language: We're fairly clean on language, actually. Not completely, but we certainly don't go out of our way to cuss up a storm.

In all, I'd say my campaign is maybe a "hard PG-13."

 

[Brennin Magalus]

It is all open for use.

Sex
Drugs
and Rock n' Roll

rape, pillage, and burn

mayhem, maim, cripple, mutilate, batter, mangle

you name it. it is there.

Right, and the sex, drugs, and violence of 3.* is just a pale imitation of it.