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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 427518" data-attributes="member: 6521">Madness - Used it, always in a sort of fictionalized way (Hannibal Lechter style characters, for instance)... Not sure to whom this is really an untoucable issue.Slavery - Haven't used it personally, played in games with it. Don't have a problem with it, can sort of see why some people would (possibly too serious of a topic for some campaigns)War - Oh yeah, lots. Have even tried to make the horror of war a little tangible -- just to add a little weight to the campaign.Rape - In the sense that it exists in the campaign world, implicitly (half-orcs, or half-tarrasques, for instance), yep, it's there. In the sense that it occurs in front of or to the characters, nope, will never use it, don't want to play in a campaign that uses it. I'm not against things being gritty and realistic to a point, but that's just too personal. Knowing people who have actually had the experience changes the whole idea for me, and I can't see ever treating the topic as appropriate to a game. The horrors of war, etc., are just as awful, but there isn't that same intimate, individual connection. I guess it comes down to the reasons you play a game... For me, it's having fun, relaxing, not dealing with serious subjects which I'm barely willing to confront in real life.</blockquote>