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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5544662" data-attributes="member: 14159">Just one thing?Here are my hard, non-negotiable no-go's.1. Rape is prohibited.  End of story, not graphic depictions of it, and not even mentioned as happening "offscreen" (at the very most as an unspoken implication to the backstory of a half-orc or tiefling, but never explicitly said as much, and even then that's pushing it).  It's not funny: it's tasteless, and it sucks the entertainment right out of the game to even consider it.2. Child abuse is completely prohibited.  Goes triple if my wife is in the game:  she was abused as a small child and still has issues related to it.  In one of my first campaigns ever (as a player) I saw a fellow player take sick pleasure at describing how his death priest was viciously torturing and slaying a small child (that turned out to be his younger self thanks to some time travel).  The DM set up the encounter as a chance for this ostensibly CN character to do a good deed and avoid slipping to CE because the character had been played as very dark and doing a lot of questionable acts, thanks to the reveal that it was actually himself as a child, the character wiped out his own existence and disappeared. . .and the player was not invited to make another character.  It was well over a decade ago and I still get kind of sick thinking about that entire incident.3. Drug use at the table, or players who openly use drugs, neither are tolerable.  Depicting it in game is fine as something fictional characters do is one thing, but the actual players wanting to light up a joint at the gaming table or take who-knows-what else wherever they think they can get away with it?  No way.  I've already refused people to be in games I've run because I know they take illegal drugs.  (Friend of a friend was interested in a game, looked him up on Facebook and added him to get to know him a little bit before the game, his first status update was to boast about being high on ecstacy and how he was going to spend the entire weekend high as a kite. . .so much for him joining my game, and I unfriended him immediately)Most other stuff I can handle at least a little or tastefully, but those are the things I can think of that if it happens at the table, I'm out or if I'm the GM the player is out.</blockquote>

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