Profanity in mods, [split by Baronius; Domi's request] Options

[Domi]

BG1 is a PG13 game, so the developper to start with did not intend it for children. There are characters in BG1 that say stuff like "Will one of you rugged adventurers give me a good, hard shag?"

The mods/mods components are sometimes rated as well (for example some of BG1NPC Romances are rated R for language or adult situations), while the mod itself is the same as the game, to avoid embaracing the selective players. It will be nice, if people used the rating system more vigorously.

I guess this is why most sci-fi/fantasy tv creates new profanities - frac, frell etc

And that is why the authors who have guts to carter to adult audience and have no pangs of guilt about it, read so real and have their own appreciative following. (Points to Martin).

In other words, do what you feel is right, just warn the consummer about it. I always make a point of explaining that Martin is gritty, uses the obscenities and does not draw curtains when his characters decided to make love, when I recommend his books. Yes, I love what he does. No, I don't expect everyone to agree with me that it is how it should be done.

This post has been edited by Domi: Jan 9 2006, 09:03 PM

[Sikret]

In my opinion, Evil creatures are of different sorts. Even among chaotic evils, you can expect different personalities.

An evil character may fight and kill his good enemy without defiling the enemy's honour. Such an evil character has goals to achieve. He may even let his enemy to write her will and may try to fulfil her last request. He may even take care of his enemy's children after killing her, because her death was needed for his goals but her children's deaths are not needed. We had such respectable evil characters in P&P AD&D. This is much different from an alternate evil character who would rape his enemy before killing her. The latter would have a dirty and cheap personality. This is not the same as being evil. There are both 'cheap' and 'great' evil personalities.

There is also one (perhaps controversial) side point which deserves consideration. Being the slave of one's own sexual desires makes it too difficult for a character to gain great powers. Power calls for discipline and self-control. I cannot imagine a very high level character whose hands and knees start trembling on seeing the opposite sex. High level characters need to have focus and self-control and avoid cheap manners, in my opinion.

As for making a mod in which an evil PC will be given opportunities to rape others and to act cheaply:

1- Such a mod will give the PC the chance to be a cheap character. The PC should also be allowed to avoid those opportunities and to aim for being a great evil character. Perhaps, each time the PC behaves cheaply some penalty to experience points should be applied, to insure that progress needs focus and discipline and a man with sexual lust is hardly a choice for becoming great in his career even as a evil character.

2- Cautions about the content of the mod need to be added during installation so that people know what they are installing and avoid it if they don't like them. I will not install such a mod for sure.