Would you play in this campaign setting?

[kitcik]

I'm going to close this thread, as the topic is a little graphic for "Eric's Grandmother".

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[anest1s]

Well I would say Yes, just to see how powerful that government is, but I think I have better things to do with my time, so No.

 

[xigbar]

Sure. Just as long as I get to play St. Cuthbert, and show some REAL divine might on the chauvinists.

 

[Scotley]

Voted no. Those are themes I prefer to explore with my wife rather than my gaming buddies.

 

[Ahnehnois]

The government is all powerful and enforces the following.

I would play in a setting dominated by an oppressive, discriminatory regime, as long as there was opportunity to oppose or escape it. That is to say, assuming the government is powerful, but not truly unavoidable or unassailable. Frankly, no authority in a D&D world should be literally all-powerful. In principle, I don't mind exploring mature issues in a game.

Would I play in a game where these sorts of rules existed and everyone was forced to accept them? No.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Voted yes. I have no problem playing in an evil game, as long as the PC aren't trying to stab each other in the back. I've had evil characters that committed rape, just as surely as they tortured and killed innocents. They're EVIL after all...

 

[Visigani]

This feels vaguely like a "butcher everyone but the teenage virgin" movie. i.e. Schlock horror. Intentionally offensive not for any purpose other than to be offensive.

I would not enjoy playing in such a campaign and would blacklist any members of a group that did. I simply would not game with them in the future in the fear that they would steer the game towards something like this.

Horrible things for dramatic license I get... but this seems to just be pushing it for the purpose of pushing it. All we get are "Lots of people ing, some against their will, but only attractive women and straight men...".

This isn't even schlock horror. This is beating off at the campaign table. It's porn.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Why's it not legit? It just looks like the poll reduces the two inflammable OPs in question down to something manageable, albeit with a little snark.

I'm pretty certain it's not lost on the people answering honestly that the original posts were more than a little over-the-top, just like it's not lost on you or the people who are answering tongue-in-cheek.

Some people take the topic more seriously than others. That doesn't make them dense. Meh.

 

[Hitman187]

Oppressive governments are always fun, but a game based highly on sex would get weird to role play. I don't quite see how a government can enforce this without spending ridicules amounts of gold on magical means. And finally why would the government do this exactly, with both parties staying with their partners and more importantly being able to choose their partners would not oppresse the people but partially empower them. Maybe if the two parties were those who never got to have intercourse and those who were forced to breed w/o choice of partner and not the same partner, that might make the government more oppresive and the setting less weird to RP.

 

[Ahnehnois]

There's a depressing number of people who aren't catching onto the parody and think this is legit.

I saw that angle. It doesn't negate the validity of the question, regardless of what the OP's intent was. People do actually have these kinds of propositions for their games some times.