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satyrblade

SERIOUSLY? We Actually Need to Say This?

Dec 01, 2010 09:45

Dear fellow Game Masters, especially* those of the male persuasion:

RAPE IS NOT YOUR PLOT DEVICE.

No matter how edgy, cool or hardcore you may think you are, there are places in a game you really should not go - most especially without the prior consent of your players. Sexual assault is one of them.

While there may be exceptions made with the ( Read more... )

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Grrr..... stone_bitch December 1 2010, 19:02:30 UTC

Reminds me of an idiot GM who was making his own game system. Not only did the female PC's have to roll up their bust size, but after a certain degree of you had to be shrouded head to toe. In his mind the more attractive the female was, the more likely her chances were of being raped. By any male in the game.

I was a play tester until he told me that part. There was a big fight that followed and I walked, mad as hell. He just couldn't understand why I was making such a big deal out of this. It was, as he kept reminding me, his game so it was his rules. That was really the only answer he had back to fall on.

Funny enough how none of the other female gamers in our community at that time would play either. Thankfully it didn't get past the paper stage theory. He blamed me for poisoning the well.

And yes, this kind of thing still needs to be said. Over and over and over. Applied with a mace in some cases.

Re: Grrr..... satyrblade December 1 2010, 19:07:55 UTC

Geeze, was he the designer of FATAL or something?

Re: Grrr..... stone_bitch December 1 2010, 19:47:13 UTC

You'd think so, but no. The name of his game system was Theoside. And he wondered why he couldn't ever seem to land a relationship.

Totally unrelated (was: Re: Grrr.....) unkyrich December 1 2010, 21:31:41 UTC

I know two people who were involved in "play-testing" Theoside. Both of them had nothing kind to say about the game, the developer, or his closest cronies.

Somehow, I'm not surprised about what you posted above, based on what they said.

Re: Grrr..... zydee December 1 2010, 19:50:21 UTC

The definitive review of that hideous game is up again, did you know? There's even a point-by-point rebuttal of it elsewhere on the site by the designer, which if anything just adds to the comedy gold (the phrase "quit while you're behind" sprang to mind while reading it).

I didn't believe it could be so bad as the review claimed, so I scored that PDF of it that was floating around way back in the day. Why yes, it is that bad. It's even worse. The review might be 10 pages long, but in such a short review the authors could not hope to fully encapsulate the sheer WTF contained in just 100 pages of that system.

Also, I'd have walked too. And I've have made my feelings quite well known--it wouldn't be an ego-protecting "oh gee, guess I'm just busy for the next four months, sorry dude.."

theweaselking December 1 2010, 22:22:45 UTC

My favourite part of the "rebuttal" was in response to the accusation that FATAL was a "date-rape RPG" - to wit, that this was most definitely not true because there is no dating in FATAL.

zydee December 1 2010, 22:43:37 UTC

Okay, you just made me bring out the LOL! acronym. Because I did in fact laugh out loud at that. Enjoy your internet; you earned it.

theweaselking December 2 2010, 01:44:37 UTC

It's not nearly as funny when you realise that Byron Hall meant this *as a serious rebuttal* that would "disprove" the review's claim that FATAL was "the date-rape RPG".

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