D&D General Which movie rating would you use to describe your D&D campaigns?

[Scott Christian]

I would say the content is PG13 for almost all the campaigns I've DMed or played in. That said, the comments at the table (regardless of which group) can definitely drift into NC17 territory.

 

[Zardnaar]

While playing D&D?

Na different game on discord.

 

[Azzy]

It'd typically be PG-13 if it weren't for the profanity—which would tip it into an R rating.

 

[R_J_K75]

Na different game on discord.

Doesnt sounds like a good scene.

 

[ericstephen]

PG-13. The Indiana Jones vibe is what I'm looking for in a campaign.

I'd never run nor play in an R-rated or above campaign.

So if you were a player & the DM, who normally curses the same amount or less than anyone else at the table, were playing a semi-recurring NPC who talks a lot like Swearingen from Deadwood, which turns PG13 into an R rating in two sentences (& succinctly conveys the core of the NPC's personality), you wouldn't play that game or if you DM, you would stay away from really portraying the NPC the way it would really speak in the world it lives in?

Vulgarity is a huge part of the US rating system. If you say "fu**" more than once, your PG13 goes to R.

 

[Zardnaar]

Doesnt sounds like a good scene.

No one was offended and it was s CANZUK server. Then the American turned up on cocaine.

 

[teitan]

PPG-13 but leaning R for horror elements along the lines of alien or Night of the Living Dead in space. Our language is interestingly not a lot of swearing, it's not super violent, just kind of gory. We don't even really have sex as a theme. It's just a fun little pulpy sci fi adventure in the Pact Worlds.

 

[CapnZapp]

Oh no worries, a lot of Americans agree this system for rating films is insane and inconsistent (and there is even evidence the MPAA is corrupt), but as a rule of thumb for describing your game to others, it is a familiar system (for Americans at least) even if (as I said in my OP) it has clear and obvious problems as a system for something that is so subjective.

Still, every major ttrpg board acts (and moderates) as if this rating system is completely natural and obvious and should apply to published game supplements, so there's probably more to it than that...

I mean, point me towards a table-top discussion forum (whose moderation policy is) set up by those Americans you talk about and I'll believe they exist

Not attacking you by the way. Consider it ribbing, at most. Thank you for replying and have a nice day.

 

[R_J_K75]

No one was offended and it was s CANZUK server. Then the American turned up on cocaine.

That's very unfortunate for "the American". If I had to guess they probably didnt shut up for the entire session.

 

[Zardnaar]

That's very unfortunate for "the American". If I had to guess they probably didnt shut up for the entire session.

Sent a dick pic to one of the others. Wasn't actually gaming just turned up and did his thing.

Totally off his face. Lives in Maine and had reasonable chats with him before.

No one was actually offended but we hang out in that channel to avoid the Deutschland Uber alles types and CSA edgelords.