How 'mature' a game do you run?

[Sissyl]

Okay, I made a response earlier, but it got removed. I hope this one is more acceptable. I have no wish to derail the thread further, consider this my response on the earlier discussion.

Spoilered for discretion:

The rape victims I have talked to have told me that it is very difficult to tell anyone about it, at least at first, because then people consider you a rape victim first and a human being second. This makes it difficult to get help during the period when it really matters, namely right after the crime and for the months following.

With reasonable support and professional help, most people do get out of the crisis into a new, worthwhile, life. Except those who accept the idea that it is better to be dead than to be raped and draw the consequnces. Far, far too many, mostly young, people do. And knowing that with a more tolerant attitude in society in general, if it was completely clear that someone's life wasn't without worth or meaning because of something that someone ELSE did to them, we would not lose at least some of those... that is very difficult for me to accept.

The heart of the matter for me is that... the day after you have been through this horror, the sun still rises.

Incidentally, the commonality of rape and death in war is a good enough reason not to accept war. I have talked to enough Bosnians who fled the war in former Yugoslavia to have at least an inkling of what went down. We as humans should be better than that.

[Chongo/sacramento]

Running a "mature" game? Most of the time the scenarios content doesn't seem to be too racey but can be quite dark. Rating scenarios that are okay for kids may not be a bad idea, right now it is the discretion of the GM. As for players kicking it up a notch, it's up to the GM to control the table if things go a bit crazy.

[Nymian Harthing]

Does it have to be a binary?
I watch neither MLP or GoT.

But I'd say our style is "PG-13 from the late 1980's" in nature. The current group's okay with but not totally into the grimdark stuff, and no one wants to RP out any sex scenes at the table. I think. Then again, Davor got pretty hot and heavy with what's-her-face...uh, Shayliss?

Hmm.

[3.5 Loyalist]

EldonG wrote:

There are a wide variety of tastes and styles, and it's only wrong if it doesn't work for you and your group.

Do you run more toward Game of Thrones, or My Little Pathfinder?

Politically?

Regarding sexual matters?

Grittiness/mortality?

Any other aspects?

Pretty mature: sex, romance, rape, morality, shades of grey (not the book), war-weariness, burned-out heroes, pure evil, evil hiding in plain sight, the evil potential of good, law and chaos, politics, scandal and a lot on cultures and other tertiary subjects goes into my games.

[Josh M.]

I like to run "mature" games in the sense that, very bad things can, and do happen to otherwise decent folk, the good guys don't always win, justice isn't always served, etc.

I like to use scenarios that put the players in moral dilemmas, sometimes with no clear-cut right or wrong answer, where their decisions have far-reaching consequences that affect other people in the setting. Simply killing off the BBEG won't solve the problem. Occasionally I like to force the players to think with their heads, not their sword arms.

Sometimes, there's even blood, b**bs, and stuff.

[3.5 Loyalist]

I run it pretty grey, a player joked about it recently.