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Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2016 16:32:36 GMT
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Post by jamerowe1 on Oct 15, 2016 2:03:59 GMT
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Post by jamerowe1 on Oct 15, 2016 2:07:29 GMT
I'm not sure how much it really belongs in most gaming. Most of my gaming takes place in public spaces where kids can see, and where teens sometimes participate.
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Post by Malcadon on Oct 15, 2016 13:19:01 GMT
In the lifespan of the D20-craze, third-party publishers pumped-up OGL books like there was no tomorrow! In the torrent of (mostly shitty) D20 splat-books, there were bound to be a good number of adult/mature titles. The funny thing is that Wizards of the Coast tried a mature set of splat-books called Book of Exalted Deeds and Book of Vile Darkness. Both books explored the concept of good and evil (respectfully), but they came off heavy-handed and somewhat inept at the deeper concept of things.
Ultimately, WotC ruled against adult and mature third-party titles with the advent of The Book of Erotic Fantasy. From that, the company issued new policies to contain "objectionable content" with compatible OGL games. The extent of this policy bans compatible book from showing or mentioning any form of drug-use, slavery, racism, brutality, etc. Basically, things that could give a setting life and character, or to give characters pathos or development. Mongoose Publishing made their own adult splat-book called Nymphology: Blue Magic, as an off-shoot to their wasteful, tree-killing "Essentials" line of books. The books were cheeky, but contains nothing really offensive. It mostly treats sex as a game of happy-grab-ass (with spells that focus on groping, voyaging, and other tomfoolery), while avoiding the darker (like rape and humiliation) or deeper aspects (mental-growth/spiritual awakening, loss of innocents, cultural norms, etc.) of sex and sexuality. It the heel-end of v3.5, someone made an RPG series called Sisters of Rapture. I have no idea what this game is about beyond that it features the art of famous erotic fan-art artist T.Cat. Just like the concept of simulated sex scenes at the game table, these
books are generally useless outside of being novelty items.
On the other hand, Mongoose Publishing did make Conan: The Role-Playing Game. It was a great series of books full of maturely handled adult content. The book deal in casual sex, prostitution, all sorts of rape — form institutionalized sex slavery to horrible tentacled Lovecraftian monstrosities — as well as to show as much titties in the art as possible (including the border art), and yet, somehow, they were all tasteful handled. Although, people generally expects "gratuitous" to be the general treatment of any properly done Conan media, the people in charge of writing the books made a good effort to respect the (original REH) source material, to not focus too much on in how lewd it could be (for its own sake), and to present adult topics with proper context. Hell, they even advice in the way of (mind you, I'm paraphrasing here): "Some scenes are best left done behind closed curtains.", and "With horror, what is not seen can be much worse than what is."
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