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

[Rabain]

3. She has fun by raping him.

That is pure fantasy on your behalf. Evil could just do things because they don't care about it either way and not because it is "fun".

I have never heard about rape victim that impaled herself on attackers knife to avoind getting raped, so I think that Will to live is strongest instinct and that means that murder is the worst and most despicable crime.

Rape victims don't really have a choice in anything that happened otherwise they wouldn't have been a victim in the first place.

Being hunted by assasins, having to kill a lot of people, living in constant danger, being pursued by law, tortures, etc.

None of which is necessarily traumatic, a player who is following the storyline from the point of view that they are trying to right a wrong (Irenicus kidnapping Imoen and then taking their soul) might not feel traumatised by anything that happens in the game. Trauma is purely subjective in this instance.

It's a dangerous presumption, because coolness isn't about morality.
Cool=charismatic, not cool=good

When we are talking about evil characters it is. If you are saying evil can be cool then it is about the morality of seeing an evil person as cool. But again that is a point of view you may have. You may see Hitler as cool, I do not. You may see Hitler as not being "evil" but I do (though not necessarily the same type of evil you encounter in FR worlds granted ).

I guess in this case it depends on whose point of view you agree with. From either point of view what we say can appear right and what the other person says appears wrong.