Erotic Roleplay Servers: How about it?


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Let's be honest here, we all know this is going to happen in the back alleys of RP servers. Happens in WoW, happens in Guild Wars, happens in EVE Online, happens everywhere.

Why not just make a server or two for it? (Or zones, if you're going that route.) You don't have to name them "SEX DUNGEON" or anything - something classy and understated, maybe, like how "massage parlour"s work.

Plus, it would be great for all the Shelyn/Lamashtu-worshipping roleplayers.


As weird as it sounds to think about, Ettin does have a point that this kind of thing is bound to happen. Trying to hyper filter it would probably be a bigger pain in the ass than it's worth, so providing something specific for those players might be a good thing.

(I'm suddenly reminded of arguments that legal prostitution is better than illegal because with things being official there is a lot that can be done to protect those involved from the dangers they face in the shadows.)


Calistra Temples.

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Ummmm, you might want to label that Mature rather then Erotic... >.>;

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Ettin wrote:

Let's be honest here, we all know this is going to happen in the back alleys of RP servers. Happens in WoW, happens in Guild Wars, happens in EVE Online, happens everywhere.

WTF???

Does this really happen??

Ettin wrote:

Plus, it would be great for all the Shelyn/Lamashtu-worshipping roleplayers

Good idea, you might as well add Calystria worshippers

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Chuck Wright wrote:
I present unto you any chat service that is free via the internet!

That would break my immersion.

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I have no interest in ERP, but if there was a verified 18+ server (or better yet 21+, just quote concerns of virtual alcohol use for justification)...I would definitely be on it.

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Darwinism wrote:
Chuck Wright wrote:
I present unto you any chat service that is free via the internet!
That would break my immersion.

I would support a 'MATURE 18+' server for sure, if only to say that it's strictly for adult audiences. Personally, I probably wouldn't care to play on such a server as I believe a persons age doesn't have all that much to do with their maturity, but I know there are a lot of people who do care about this stuff - entire 'mature' guilds exist who don't care for younger members.

As for the adult themes players choose to get themselves involved in... I'm not judging but it's not for me.

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I don't care if people do it in any case, as long as it's on a private channel and I don't have to hear how the half-orc is assaulting the gates with his "Grond".

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Chuck Wright wrote:
I don't care if people do it in any case, as long as it's on a private channel and I don't have to hear how the half-orc is assaulting the gates with his "Grond".

But what if he is?

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Well, I hope having player housing will at least keep it off the streets.


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I think it's a good idea. I would rather not have that sort of thing in my gaming, as I find it to be rather distasteful, and I'm sure many feel the same way. A separate server where they can do that stuff would allow those of us who dislike this sort of thing to enjoy the game without having to watch a bunch of cybersex.


Epic Troll.

Seriously, there is no way this is happening.


caith wrote:

Epic Troll.

Seriously, there is no way this is happening.

I'm not so sure this is a troll topic. I see merit in the idea.

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My suggestion is to have one up for a week as a honeypot.


Kelsey MacAilbert wrote:
caith wrote:

Epic Troll.

Seriously, there is no way this is happening.

I'm not so sure this is a troll topic. I see merit in the idea.

The reason this (or the 'location' chats in PC homes that Mark mentioned) is important is because this kind of stuff happens, whether we want it or not. It's better to isolate it where we don't have to see it than try (and fail more often than not) to filter it.

Plus, when you have strict filters you run into problems like getting filtered when you say you're going to cock your crossbow or want to sell a fine roasting cock at the market.

EDIT: huh, looks like the Paizo board's filter lost that word. Good, in a fantasy topic it comes up more often than you might think.


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Ah ERP. Where two frumpy middle aged men con each other into believe the other is a hot young teenage girl.


Please don't Arikiel... I have a marginally easier time accepting the image of teenage and college age nerds conning eachother than middle-aged men...


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Two middle-aged nerds, surrounded by Star Wars posters. One slowly chews his pizza, hot cheese tenderly kissing the edges of his flourishing neckbeard.


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On-topic, i suspect the odds of this are close to nil. Doing so would require a branding of the product with Mature/Adult rating tags and i suspect they will seek to be lower then that if possible for a larger audience.

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I'm almost certain that a 18+ server dedicated for this would hurt more than it could ever help. To me it makes the game seem less mature and more perverse. I think that the best solution is to keep the game such that I wouldn't feel like I would have to hide it from my teenage brothers. If someone wishes to proclaim publicly that their "half-orc is assaulting the gates with his 'Grond'." I would rather them be directed out of the game.

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Second Life.


Rathendar wrote:
On-topic, I suspect the odds of this are close to nil. Doing so would require a branding of the product with Mature/Adult rating tags and i suspect they will seek to be lower then that if possible for a larger audience.

This. And besides, you can always leave your ERP into private message levels, like most smart online RPers...

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caith wrote:
Epic Troll.

That's what she said!


Icyshadow wrote:
This. And besides, you can always leave your ERP into private message levels, like most smart online RPers...

I dunno man, half the fun of it is new people entering the tavern and adding their own spin on things. Like improv, or LARPing.

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Ettin wrote:

Let's be honest here, we all know this is going to happen in the back alleys of RP servers. Happens in WoW, happens in Guild Wars, happens in EVE Online, happens everywhere.

Why not just make a server or two for it? (Or zones, if you're going that route.) You don't have to name them "SEX DUNGEON" or anything - something classy and understated, maybe, like how "massage parlour"s work.

Plus, it would be great for all the Shelyn/Lamashtu-worshipping roleplayers.

Won't happen for a very good reason. Even putting one such server will shoot the rating of the game to ADULT or above, effectively closing out a major part of potential purchases.


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Many Men Online RolePlaying Girls.


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Part of me wants to be a founding member of the Pitax Streakers' Guild. But I'm sure those "artists" already have several.

However, I'm totally on board with "adults only" servers/areas. Not necessarily to undress the elven priestess and then see just how flexible the game system is (also the priestess).

I just want to be able to play my characters without lots of ********* replacing what I typed. I'm not saying all my characters swear, but some do, and it would be nice if I could play such a character without having to pussyfoot around some cockeyed restrictions on what I say.

I mean, this isn't Middle Earth.

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Hudax wrote:
Many Men Online RolePlaying Girls.

World of Warcraft!

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I removed some posts. I realize it's tempting in this thread, but let's try to keep things family-friendly, eh?


I put on my robe and wizard hat.

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if content was normal level for rating the game no reason why a server that has a further restriction should increase the games rating

I personally might visit the server out of curiosity but would not play there as standard

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I removed a couple posts. Do not make hateful statements.

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Pathfinder is not and will not be a "mature audiences only" property, and I'm not willing to entertain steps in that direction. Sorry.

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I'd be happy with a 21+ server to keep out the 13 year old twerps...


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a 30/40+ server for us, old timers, that used to play with computer games with a joystick and one button, and still feel uncomfortable with 12 buttons joypads, hot keys and 90% of the jargon posted in these threads?

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tburke0 wrote:
I put on my robe and wizard hat.

This is one of the funniest things I've ever read.


This game will largely sell to an American audience. Right now we(the US)are a country where you can show blood, gore, and dead bodies on CSI, but one nipple slip during a Super Bowl and half the country goes crazy.

Best to let those who want to participate keep it in the back alleys. To have the company officially endorse suggestive sexuality in the current nation's climate will kill the game before it's launched.

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Vic Wertz wrote:
Pathfinder is not and will not be a "mature audiences only" property, and I'm not willing to entertain steps in that direction. Sorry.

Thank goodness for that. Also making LOTS of different servers dilutes your initial player base, and at first you need them ALL working together to buzz your game.


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Because verisimilitude is nigh-invulnerable in one's game of pretend until icky emotions and intimacy take a greater role than mutilation, evisceration, and grievous bodily harm.

It's not my game, but were it so, I'd allow for it. There's a market. It need not be the most open, acknowledge, or remotely primary market, but if one's IP is so vulnerable that it cannot handle the application of life-affirming happenstances, then there's something fundamentally wrong at the conceptual level well before one's herds of migrant murder hobos venture forth from their homes in the first place.

...unless you're playing myconids, or some other form of asexually reproducing non-dimorphic entity. Which, at that point, I don't know what to tell you.


Not that I do not disagree with a Mature rated server(s), it will never happen because there is no way to effectively control the under 18 crowd and the ensuing lawsuits that would follow because the parents are not watching little Johny's Internet usage.

~Lord of the Rings Online - Beta Tester\Player
~Star Wars: The Old Republic - Beta Tester

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Anderlorn wrote:

Not that I do not disagree with a Mature rated server(s), it will never happen because there is no way to effectively control the under 18 crowd and the ensuing lawsuits that would follow because the parents are not watching little Johny's Internet usage.

~Lord of the Rings Online - Beta Tester\Player
~Star Wars: The Old Republic - Beta Tester

Agreed, the best option would be just to make rules to limit potentially offensive conversation to private channels/housing.


Anderlorn wrote:

Not that I do not disagree with a Mature rated server(s), it will never happen because there is no way to effectively control the under 18 crowd and the ensuing lawsuits that would follow because the parents are not watching little Johny's Internet usage.

~Lord of the Rings Online - Beta Tester\Player
~Star Wars: The Old Republic - Beta Tester

Age of Conan is a Mature-rated MMO (the only one). So it's not going to never happen because of minors and their overworked parents who don't monitor them. It won't happen because Mr Wertz and, presumably, other people at Paizo don't want to see Pathfinder used in this manner officially--there will almost assuredly still be "Mature"-rated interactions going on between players, but there's a reason that all MMOs have a tag on their box that says that gaming experiences may change while online.

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