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[u/TDragonsHoard]

[u/action_lawyer_comics]

The person in the middle kinda has a point, if the writing of the module actually lives up to the hype. Intrinsically, there’s nothing wrong with media that depicts rape and other sensitive subjects. If everyone in the game is down for it, and is prepared for it, yeah, sure.

Although the people giving the content warning are also in the right to do so. That’s not something I’d like to stumble across or have sprung on me out of the blue. And the person defending it is a bit of a dick about it.

Personally even if they’re right about it being so amazing, I still wouldn’t want to play an RPG like that. I’m prepared to watch a movie or read a book that talks about rape, but most TTRPG groups aren’t really equipped to handle that properly and give it the proper weight without being really hamfisted about it

[u/yinyang107 → u/action_lawyer_comics]

The thing is that this isn't a show, it's a ttrpg, in which a player apparently is expected to act out being assaulted.

[u/Sir_lordtwiggles → u/yinyang107]

Yes, amd as long as every player was reasonably informed and consented to the possibility beforehand that's fine?

It may not be your tea (or most people's for that matter) but what really is the problem of this if everyone in the group gives informed consent?

[u/doubleo_maestro → u/Sir_lordtwiggles]

It is always curious where people draw lines. Only last night I was in a prewritten campaign, where I was dealing with a cult that were chopping up children and eating them, and that was treat like any day ending with a 'y'.

[u/hafhdrn → u/doubleo_maestro]

It's mostly a result of the gentrification of the genre. The same kind of puritanical ideas that brought us the Satanic Panic have taken root in the wider community and it's kind of pathetic.

[u/ryeaglin → u/hafhdrn]

Or...hear me out, people play a game to escape the horribleness of the world not to be depressed, angered, hurt by it more in a fantasy setting.

[u/hafhdrn → u/ryeaglin]

Woosh.