What do you think about Eroticism in OSR games/campaigns?

Bedrockbrendan · January 06, 2016, 01:37:51 PM

Quote from: Christopher Brady;872259https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pva35TFiBfI

I hate that guy.

Ravenswing · January 06, 2016, 02:32:04 PM

Quote from: Opaopajr;872202No, no, it goes "what I like is eroticism, what you like is porn! Shame on you and your prurient interests!"

Something like my definition of "slut" -- "a woman who's slept with two more people than you'd feel comfortable doing yourself in her shoes."

Christopher Brady · January 06, 2016, 03:24:35 PM

Quote from: Ravenswing;872267Something like my definition of "slut" -- "a woman who's slept with two more people than you'd feel comfortable doing yourself in her shoes."

Why would I want to do her shoes???

Bren · January 06, 2016, 03:34:54 PM

Quote from: Christopher Brady;872273Why would I want to do her shoes???

Self satisfaction while wearing her shoes does sound like an odd kink...not that their's anything wrong with that.

Omega · January 06, 2016, 05:52:00 PM

Quote from: S'mon;872250There's a great British word which y'all should use:

Smut.

Been around since at least the 60s. Both Dragon and Twilight Zone magazine had at least one outrage moment way back. (The gossamer clad witch cover and the one panel of a comic incidents respectively.) TSR more or less caved in. (Theyd never had that much risque art in Dragon anyhow.) Issac Asimov told em to get bent, the magazine was all inclusive. Then they added a bit more "smut" in later issues just to rub it in. (And if White Dwarf got any outrage they never posted it (that I saw). wimps.

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S'mon · January 06, 2016, 07:40:09 PM

Quote from: Omega;872295(And if White Dwarf got any outrage they never posted it (that I saw). wimps. )

Before Political Correctness no one in the UK really cared much. You'd get an occasional letter in White Dwarf "she should be wearing more armour to fight that demon" sort of thing, but it was always pretty equal-opportunity

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TheShadow · January 06, 2016, 10:36:11 PM

Haven't really done any sexual content in RPGs since I was a teenager. Occasional maturely handled romance if it leads to a good story.

I do like "mental cheesecake" in that it's fun to imagine that many of the female inhabitants are hotter and more scantily clad than would be feasible in real life. No different from movies or RPG art.

It must be the very tameness of my heterosexuality which has made the SJW anti-straight white male crusade of the last few years stick in my craw all the more.

Bren · January 06, 2016, 11:21:03 PM

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;872260I hate that guy.

Why?

Nexus · January 07, 2016, 04:11:41 PM

Quote from: Omega;871871You havent seen Fred's X rated comics then. :eek:

Is the implication that Fred Perry is "SJW"?

I actually like Foglio's adult material more, has more plot and characterization than Perry's. I prefer Gold Digger to Girl Genius though but I can't tell you exactly why.

RPGPundit · January 12, 2016, 03:21:25 AM

My recent interview with Venger Satanis is pretty relevant here.

S'mon · January 12, 2016, 06:09:52 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;873091My recent interview with Venger Satanis is pretty relevant here.

"semi-autistic 340lb guy in the filthy t-shirt"

Does that really describe your players, Pundit? If it described mine I wouldn't want to play RPGs at all, never mind any erotic element! You poor poor man.

James Gillen · January 13, 2016, 09:31:56 PM

Quote from: S'mon;873103"semi-autistic 340lb guy in the filthy t-shirt"

[raises hand]

RPGPundit · January 15, 2016, 08:08:40 PM

Quote from: S'mon;873103"semi-autistic 340lb guy in the filthy t-shirt"

Does that really describe your players, Pundit? If it described mine I wouldn't want to play RPGs at all, never mind any erotic element! You poor poor man.

Actually, the vast majority of my players, being southern-cone latinos, are probably thinner and better dressed than American gamers.

But I still wouldn't want to be spending time in my game watching any of them, even the women, graphically describing their PC's sex acts.

AsenRG · January 16, 2016, 04:25:53 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;873666Actually, the vast majority of my players, being southern-cone latinos, are probably thinner and better dressed than American gamers.

So, the description wasn't of a real case, but just a cheap way to score rhetorical points. Gotcha.

And well, some playstyles just aren't for some people, no shame in being one of those people.

S'mon · January 16, 2016, 04:50:33 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;873666Actually, the vast majority of my players, being southern-cone latinos, are probably thinner and better dressed than American gamers.

But I still wouldn't want to be spending time in my game watching any of them, even the women, graphically describing their PC's sex acts.

Me neither (even the cute females). Two things:

1. Seems to me you can have 'eroticism' without graphic sex scenes.

2. I'm wondering how accurate your stereotype of American(?) gamers is - certainly doesn't describe more than one or two of the hundreds at the London D&D Meetup. My impression is that there are a lot of fat Americans & a lot of fat American gamers, but only a tiny number of Cat Piss Men are filthy.