Tasteful Nudity In RPGS

Ladybird · January 30, 2015, 07:38:21 PM

Quote from: Omega;813338That was actually an element in one of my RPGs. Sex blew off your magic and left mages pretty much powerless for up to a day because it was tied to your life force. Getting pregnant shut off your magic for the duration and getting castrated pretty much ended your career permanently. Doing either by force without good reason was a near guarantee of courting disaster. So instead criminal mages would be handed over to a pleasure cult with some rather novel methods of keeping a caster curbed and not very happy about it either.

The castration thing seems like an odd one out here, because having sex and being pregnant both involve giving life force away, whereas castration kinda prevents that. What was the logic?

Also, last sentence squick.

Nexus · January 30, 2015, 07:56:03 PM

Quote from: Omega;813338That was actually an element in one of my RPGs. Sex blew off your magic and left mages pretty much powerless for up to a day because it was tied to your life force. Getting pregnant shut off your magic for the duration and getting castrated pretty much ended your career permanently. Doing either by force without good reason was a near guarantee of courting disaster. So instead criminal mages would be handed over to a pleasure cult with some rather novel methods of keeping a caster curbed and not very happy about it either.

Did barren women lack magical power?

Bren · January 30, 2015, 09:49:39 PM

Quote from: Ladybird;813344The castration thing seems like an odd one out here, because having sex and being pregnant both involve giving life force away, whereas castration kinda prevents that. What was the logic?

Presumably because they are cut off from the life force. Whether that is a result of the physical event itself or whether the physical event magically causes (via the law of symmetry) the magician to be cut off from the life force is left as an exercise to the apprentice.

Quote from: Nexus;813347Did barren women lack magical power?

Presumably they have the same powers as an intact but sterile man.

Nexus · January 30, 2015, 10:36:10 PM

Quote from: Bren;813362Presumably they have the same powers as an intact but sterile man.

That's what I was trying to determine Was it the flesh and physical organs that were the source of the magic or was it part of the ability to create "lifeforce" in the sense of reproduction.

Omega · January 31, 2015, 08:01:18 AM

Quote from: Ladybird;813344The castration thing seems like an odd one out here, because having sex and being pregnant both involve giving life force away, whereas castration kinda prevents that. What was the logic?

Also, last sentence squick.

Disruption of that drive. And yeah, squick.
Which was why it was an absolute last resort when killing the mage was not an option. Or particularly vile villains. For one, stuff like that got not only Magics attention, but possibly also Passions as well and it could snowball out of control as they got on the line with eachother and started collaborating on what to do about the problem. Like pointing some adventurers at the problem. Possibly alot of adventurers.

Omega · January 31, 2015, 08:33:15 AM

Quote from: Nexus;813347Did barren women lack magical power?

Natually occurring was about non-existent. If someone was barren or sterile there was usually some external force at work. One of the original players characters was descended from a bloodline cursed with sterility and the novel way it was circumvented.

Which comes back around to nudity in games and game-art. One person is going to view it as bad and someone else isnt going to see a problem, and someone else is going to think it fits.

Like with the CthulhuTech thread and the examples of people reacting to elements in that. Or the thread over on BGG where some guy was pointing out all the "nudity" in games. One example of nudity...

Spoiler

Bren · January 31, 2015, 11:32:08 AM

Quote from: Omega;813427One example of nudity...

:confused: What nudity?

Will · January 31, 2015, 11:40:50 AM

Amusingly, my sister just commented on my 'works in progress' picture gallery, saying that it was very good, but what was with all the boobs and unrealistic body types.

And ... ... uh. What? Maybe I'm jaded from RPG and comic book art, but I rather thought most of what I had in that gallery really really tame...

( http://tinyurl.com/pdeevlw if you want to see for yourself)

Ironically, I'm just about to put together a page for my webcomic featuring a naked woman with giant breasts.

ZWEIHÄNDER · January 31, 2015, 12:10:10 PM

I don't find it surprising that the entire conversation has been about naked women. In a lot of ways, fantasy art has mostly been comprised of male artists depicting the female body. However, it is very clear that the hobby's demographics are nearly split down the middle between both sexes.

So, how about we take the conversation to the next step: tasteful depictions of naked men in fantasy RPGs?

Sexually-suggestive images in RPGs are fine, but outright nudity seems immature. For instance, in ZWEIHANDER Grim & Perilous, there is a Prostitute profession. However, to combat the puerile stereotypes we've made certain that our artwork caters to both sexes. Ultimately, "less is more" is our watchword:

TristramEvans · January 31, 2015, 12:27:26 PM

I grew up reading comicbooks, so Ive seen depictions of naked men my entire life, and my experience is that they largely arent of much interest to women.

Bren · January 31, 2015, 01:21:56 PM

Quote from: ZWEIHÄNDER;813443For instance, in ZWEIHANDER Grim & Perilous, there is a Prostitute profession. However, to combat the puerile stereotypes we've made certain that our artwork caters to both sexes. Ultimately, "less is more" is our watchword:

I like the card.

Well done.

However, given the ambience of War Hammer and I presume ZG&P, I have one quibble, that guy should have on some kind of footware.

Bren · January 31, 2015, 01:25:37 PM

Quote from: ZWEIHÄNDER;813443For instance, in ZWEIHANDER Grim & Perilous, there is a Prostitute profession. However, to combat the puerile stereotypes we've made certain that our artwork caters to both sexes. Ultimately, "less is more" is our watchword:

I like the card.

Well done.

However, given the ambience of War Hammer and I presume ZG&P, I have one quibble. That guy should have on some kind of footware.

Ladybird · January 31, 2015, 02:05:05 PM

Quote from: ZWEIHÄNDER;813443ZWEIHANDER Grim & Perilous

Nice pic. I like it.

Guy needs shoes, though

Omega · January 31, 2015, 03:59:23 PM

Quote from: Bren;813439:confused: What nudity?

That was my line too. Some of the other examples are more valid. Bemusingly the OP for that did not list Phil Foglio's XXXenonphile game. :cool:

Omega · January 31, 2015, 04:18:12 PM

Quote from: ZWEIHÄNDER;813443In a lot of ways, fantasy art has mostly been comprised of male artists depicting the female body.

Actually a surprising amount of that nude women art is done by women. Or the occasional husband and wife teams.

Tasteful Nudity In RPGS

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