thread: 2011-09-20 : Deep Dark Vincent-burning Game Design
On 2011-09-22, Ben Lehman wrote:
Just FYI: Poison'd isn't about depravity, and the view of humanity it expresses is anything but grim, except if you think that "victims of violence are desensitized to violence" is "grim." I find the alternative much more grim, myself.
If you take "rape" off the list of sins it means raping someone is no big deal, in your game. If you take "rape" off of the list of sufferings, it means being raped is no big deal, in your game.
Consider what happens in apocalypse world if your character rapes someone (say, your Gunlugger). Now consider what happens in Poison'd. Likewise for a character getting raped. Which game has a more sensitive, accurate, and humane treatment of the topic?
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—Ben
