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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buttercup" data-source="post: 1921230" data-attributes="member: 990">Sex:  Right now one of the PCs is having a romance with the owner of a tavern.  When they spend time together, it usually just gets described as "fade to the fireplace" and we move on.  Just last session the PCs started on a sub-plot that involves a nasty NPC who is a rapist.  They found one of his victims in a holding pen for slaves.  I didn't go into any detail about what he did to her, but everybody gets it.  I have used other NPCs who are sexually violent in the past, and I'll do so again, I'm sure. For me, that sort of thing just seems like a natural outgrowth of a certain kind of evil.Violence:  I describe the spattering of blood and guts from time to time.  If one of them disembowels the enemy, that isn't clean or pretty, and I don't shy away from saying so.  And if they wander back into an inn without cleaning up, the barwench is likely to insist the PCs clean the gore off their armor and take a bath before she'll serve 'em. Drugs: 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.   In my present campaign, the priestesses of the Sea Goddess are notoriously flaky and stoned.  They use extracts of various sea plants as part of their religious rituals.  These extracts have both sedative and hallucinogenic properties, so the priestesses are vague and unreliable even at their best.  Except for the warrior priestesses who act as temple guards and demon slayers--these women have somehow learned to metabolize the extracts and still maintain their edge. If my players were underage, I'd not use sex and drugs, and probably tone town the violence a bit.  But we're all adults so it doesn't seem like a big deal to me.</blockquote>

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