Wait...let me start again...
Some time ago a group of friends of mine decided to venture into the world of RPG's...or re-enter for some of us as several of us had done them before...Fuck it I'm rambling again.....
We started with Deathwatch as being a giant armoured Space Marine was kinda fun...being an Evil giant armoured Space Marine is obviously even more fun so several of us gradually turned to the forces of evil or into an Obliterator...still not sure I've forgiven Tom for that...
Me - "My Tech-Marine investigates the body of the morphing gun platform that just killed most of our allies"
Tom - "Your now infected with the Obliterator virus..."
Out of character me - "Doesn't the Obliterator Virus need Daemonic energy in order to infect someone?"
Tom - "Yes. This is a Daemon world...why? didn't I mention that?"
Bastard.....
Space Marines being what they are we never had any situations that could be described as controversial..though our first GM's very specific description of the outfit of a maid in a certain mission certainly gave us an interesting inset into his mind...
So we fought away through all sorts of enemies and despite the fact that by the end of the campaign one of us was effectively a Khorne Berserker, another an Obliterator and a third had followed virtually every Chaos god that you could think of we hadn't pushed the limits of taste in any appreciable manner.
Then we started Dark Heresy,
By it's inherent nature the world of Warhammer 40K is a nasty place. Take the worst area of the world today and multiply it by about a zillion times and you'll barely scratch the surface of what horrors must exist there.
However the hobby itself has a strong bias towards children for obvious reasons so much of the literature has a definite 'look what we almost said...' quality about it. Read the Horus Heresy novel Fulgrim as an adult and you'll get a far different picture of the Emperors Children than a child would from reading the exact same novel.
However as adults playing an RPG we can pretty much push the boundaries as far as we feel comfortable to do...Enter Lucien...
I wrote up a brief background story for a decadent, bored and inherently corrupt loser of an Arbitrator and Lucien seemed like a reasonable enough name...For reasons that are unlikely to be explained here he was also a Cyber Mastiff Handler because I though that would be fun as well and after a bit of fiddling with the rules my character was born. Quite a lot of the unpleasantness in his background was implied rather than outright stated. It was implied that he burned down a hab block rather than pay his rent and implied that he probably killed more than a couple of bad guys and stole their stuff, etc.
Implied but never specifically detailed of course...Until the 'hooker incident'...
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| Sorry...wrong hooker... |
I can't even remember why there was a hooker in the mission to be honest but we found out she had some money and was vaguely connected with some gang who's significance I've now forgotten. One of the kinder members of our team gave her his pass card so she could escape the city and she toddled off to get her cash and disappear into the sunset...
...and then my character tracked her down, killed her and stole her money...Well that was the initial plan anyway...however the conversation turned somewhat darker and several hours later my character was a sexual sadist who raped, defiled and then killed hookers.....Strange as it might seem now it was actually quite funny at the time....
No really it was...
In the next mission one of our team members 'serviced' a Guardsman in exchange for the use of his Salamander..several times in fact and our Inquisitor used Biomancy to make some-one orgasm so they'd go away and stop bugging them...all of which incidents seemed amusing at the time...
I doubt any similar incidents will be making there way into the next Black Library novel though.
I'd like to point out that I don't personally kill hookers and in my normal life probably wouldn't react to a news story about hooker torturing with the same amusement that the same scenario 'in game' elicited. I'm also reasonably sure that no matter how well you performed sexually, a soldier would be unlikely to lend his APC to you.
So what avenues you go down in your own RPG's are obviously entirely up to you but is there a limit beyond which you shouldn't go?
Thoughts and comments are (as usual) most welcome.
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There were no comments, so I figured I'd let you know that you are far from alone. Long story short, I once ran a warforged artificer blue mage (the perverse kind) who hated humanity but wasn't big on killing. Instead, battles were won with "clothes to chocolate" and "bigbys raging member" with occassional uses of "power word orgasm". Embarrasment of your enemies is sometimes much more entertaining.
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