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Message no. 1
From: Bruce gyro@********.co.za
Subject: Sex and Violence (Re: Getting Nasty to Your Players (WAS: Re: The Friggin' Healing Spell)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 09:51:42 +0200
From: Arcady <arcady@***.net>
Date: 01 September 1999 12:13
Subject: Re: Getting Nasty to Your Players (WAS: Re: The Friggin'
Healing Spell)


>>>Were are all the on camera or written in detail in the book rape
scenes in:
>
>>
>>>Bladerunner.
>>>Total Recall
>>>BubbleGum Crisis
>>>Ghost in the Shell
>>
>>>Islands in the Net
>>>Neuromancer
>>>Jonny Zed
>>
>>>The genre may be about a dark future, but that doesn't require
depravity in
>
>>>the least.
>>
>>Exactly my point. Just because these issues are
discussed/encountered in a
>campaign doesn't mean the GM and the players are a bunch of depraved
sickos.
>
>
>The point is that rape and sexual depravity was not 'played out' in
any of these
>items. That you can have a dark future without including the roleplay
of these
>things. Sexual depravity isn't needed to give the genre a dark feel
and in fact
>has no place in entertainment.
>
>Arcady

Ummmmm... no.

Sex is omnipresent in modern entertainment, due to the fact that it
sells copies of
books, videos, movie ticketsd etc... however.. the mix of sex and
violence esp. in the
smae scene, gets peoples undies in a knot, and rightly so. We should
not have to
pay to be shocked by horrible events when we want to be enjoying
ourselves.

Unluckily, these things do happen. Every such an event sucks BIGtime,
but happens
none the less. Now, we have the opportunity to portray reality in our
games. We have
no censors blacking out bits of our GM notes so we cant use them
etc... I feel its our
duty to show Hollywood just how far off base they are with the happy
ending good guys
always win and have perfect teeth and hair even after a punchup
syndrome.

Its also important to do most of this kind of stuff "offscreen" Theres
no point in being
tasteless about the whole thing. If you want to be graphic and go the
whole hog, make
DAMN sure EVERYBODY in the room is totally OK with it.

- + - BRUCE <gyro@********.co.za> -

MiX it UP!
Message no. 2
From: Thomas thomas041179@***.de
Subject: Sex and Violence (Re: Getting Nasty to Your Players (WAS: Re: The Friggin' Healing Spell)
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:28:51 +0200
> >>>Were are all the on camera or written in detail in the book rape
> scenes in:
> >
> >>
> >>>Bladerunner.
> >>>Total Recall
> >>>BubbleGum Crisis
> >>>Ghost in the Shell
> >>
> >>>Islands in the Net
> >>>Neuromancer
> >>>Jonny Zed
> >>
> >>>The genre may be about a dark future, but that doesn't require
> depravity in

Have you ever seen 8mm ??

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