Pedophilia in Golarion


Lost Omens Campaign Setting General Discussion

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Is it even considered a crime in the civilized parts of Golarion? Is it not even prohibited but simply looked down upon by others?
Is it a given in any country that allows Slavery?

Reasons: As part of an evil group of PCs (Antipaladin who joined up with a coven of witches) currently nested in Cheliax, the group was coming up with plans to blackmail a Chelaxian noble. It's rather complex, but the gist of it is that they want to slip the man a philter of love without him knowing and have the first thing he sees be the PC who is magically disguised as one of the young Mwangi slaves. Then the other PCs come in after a day or two to reveal that they know of the affair and extort the noble accordingly.

My problem with the plan was two fold: One, no one cares what he does with his slaves because at worst they are just material components for some of the more powerful spells. Two, because of that element of pale-skinned supremacy in Cheliax, the noble could probably get away with it even if the PC disguised as a Chelaxian child.

So then we changed the plan slightly, and one of the witches was disguised as a cat instead.


Halflings and Gnomes probably translate into a reduced incidence of this particular thing [Among humans] than in the real world.


*sighs* You know, this is one of those things that I could almost certainly go without answering in my games. I play to escape this level of nastiness, not think about it. That being said, considering some of the things out there in the multiverse and Lamashtu.... Yeah, this is probably still a thing that is frowned upon in civilized socities. Not entirely sure where Cheliax would stand on it, but something tells me this is starting to get uncomfortably close to certain demonic mindsets.

Also, I agree with Kyrt-Ryder as well.

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Yes, you can assume that it is a crime. It also seems like something that should be worked out within your group. We're really not comfortable facilitating a conversation where it's possible that this could turn into a debate on paizo.com, so we'll be locking this one.

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