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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 425594" data-attributes="member: 775">In my own Greyhawk Campaign, within the City of Pontylver the PCs encountered the spoiled Prince Damien Trieste that would go "hunting for women."  He and his thugs would frequent bars and taverns and carry off barmaids for their own delights.He attempted to do this while the PCs were around.  They faced a dilemma: Save the girl and face a very powerful and danger enemy or leave things well enough alone and go about their business.  They chose the first option.  No only did they wind up slaying the Prince, the rogue ripped his gold tooth out.  Overall, it came out to be great scene.  It brought out the best in my players.Now the PCs are stuck in Rel Astra, and Overking Ivid V has deemed the city traitorous.  Drax the Invulnerable, lord of the city, must be captured.  It is the beginning of the Greyhawk Wars.  The Great Kingdom has awoken, its armies mobilized to strike its enemies.While the PCs goals aren't really at all related to the war...Wars have this tendency to disrupt people's lives.  While they were on a ship bound for Rel Astra, they were captured by the Rel Astran Navy to break the Imperial blockade in the city's harbor.Essentially they became conscripted against their will...almost slaves, for if they tried to desert, the Rel Astran officers would try to kill them.  Even these Imperial vessels had slaves at the oars.  Their lives were brutal.  When the ships sank, nobody unchained them from the oars.The PCs felt bad about this, but there wasn't anything they could do but watch.  So that's how they rationalized it.  And they now know that the Rel Astrans aren't any better than the Great Kingdom.  Both are wicked and decadent, through and through.So now they’re in Rel Astra, and the city is besieged by a vast superior force.  If the blockade hadn't lifted, the city would certainly have fallen.While there, they’ve witnessed the best and worst in people.  Some feel as though it is the end.  So brothels and shops selling narcotics in the Plaza of Dark Delights are having good business.  Others are getting even with old enemies before their time is up.  Yet, there are people who lay down their lives so that their fellow citizens can live on, so that Rel Astra can survive.  Most Rel Astrans are proud of their city, and unwilling to give it up to some insane “Fiend-Seeing Overking.”I think adding mature themes depth to the game, as long as they’re handled maturely.  I don’t throw in rape, sex, war, slavery, etc unless there’s a reason for it, such as adding something to the plot or atmosphere of a situation.  However, there are lines of taste to be drawn.  Such as I will never describe a rape scene.I rate my games "R" to "NC-17." (With leaning toward the "R") And my players are comfortable with that.One of my players made a remark regarding the BovD, “I don’t think you need that book.  You run a pretty dark game as it is, and I’m having fun.”But I’m gonna get the BovD anyway because it has cool spells. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Ulrick</blockquote>

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