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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5524391" data-attributes="member: 14159">So, when you were a kid your parents were comfortable with you walking around in stores where the patrons were using racist, sexist and anti-semitic language?  When I was 12 or 13 and wanting to try out D&D, if the hobby shop I bought my first gaming books at had a table in the back with people playing a game and the example my parents saw had language like an Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor or George Carlin routine, I would have probably been banned from gaming.Honestly, sitting around in a FLGS playing a game with the players throwing lots of "R" rated language around would be one very quick way to scare possible newbies away from gaming (including those adults that have higher standards of public behavior and decency that they find gratuitous public cursing offensive) and reflects poorly on the gaming community as a whole.Would you be comfortable with people standing around in the grocery store, or at a fast food restaurant, or any other public venue talking like that?  Many people wouldn't, and a FLGS is a public place.  It may feel like your private hangout, but it's still a place of business, and standards of decency should be adhered to.What people do in private is their own business, but there is a standard of decorum that is perfectly reasonable to expect in public.  The OP is being considerate, and the FLGS would be very wise to take up his advice and set it as a future standard for all games in their shop.  If the FLGS doesn't want to back him up and allow that language and behavior at their shop, yes it's their choice, but I wouldn't recommend it.</blockquote>

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