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General If one player wanted to be in a Kinky Sci-Fi game, but the rest don't...? NSFW

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What would you do if one player wanted to be in a Kinky Sci-Fi game, but the rest don't?

Would you use cut scenes and give the player a story off-camera, so to speak? Away from the rest of the group?

Or if the group doesn't mind, but won't participate, would you play it all out in-game?

I saw this:

Looking for RPG's with lewd elements.

Now how do you handle this: in-game or out-of-game?
 
They don’t get in the group. ⌧ RPG is a different genre.

I would have to be convinced it was central to the milieu and that the people involved were interested in sophisticated psychological drama with a sci-fi bent not making me an accessory to their fantasy generation, and that’s a difficult sell.
This.

I mean, there are surely (no, I didn't just call you...) RPGs for that, though I expect they're mostly LARP type things.

Traveller isn't one of them.
 
This should be negotiated with the players at the start of the gaming session.

Anyone -- including the referee! --- should be free to call a halt to the game if it's getting into areas/details that they find offensive or trauma-triggering. At that point, discuss the problem and work out the way forward.
 
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Rules for the gaming table I have used since I was a teenager.

No real world religion, politics or sexual deviance at the table, especially the latter. If it isn't suitable for a 14 year old audience then it has no place at the table.

Even when the group is made up of close friends, all adults and all forty plus.

Keep your sexual fetishes to yourself, I don't want to know, and neither do the women at the table.

Never mind all that X card nonsense and oh my hurty feels, if you don't like the game, don't play it. If you don't like our group consensus code of conduct then don't ask to join in. Tabletop role play for gaming purposes is very different from bedroom role play.

We are playing games of adventure, I don't recall Tolkien getting into the sexual fetishes of the Numenorians, or Arthur C Clark bringing a new meaning to Rendezvous with Rama.
 
I mean, there are surely (no, I didn't just call you...)
Don't call me Shirley. :)

This is all interesting. Most people don't want it. But there's some that think it's ok. And everyone seems to have a perfectly valid point.

But what about Illithids (Mind Flayers) in Starfinder for your tentacle pourn? It's not a real-world thing since a Mind Flayer doesn't really exist.

Some Horror Sci-Fi definitely crosses the line. The Facehugger in ALIEN was called that because they couldn't get away with calling it a Facef*cker.

And D&D 3.5 had its Book of Erotic Fantasy.

Traveller has the potential to have all of this.

Pris from Blade Runner is an example of a Pleasure Bio'Bot. But they didn't specifically bring that up in the Robot Handbook.

So, maybe it really depends on how you do your kink or lewd-ity?
 
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but the rest don't?

This is, IMHO, the critical point in your question, and, again IMHO, it answers it by itself.

Of course you can play any game in a kinky way, even just tossing a coin, but unless all players agree on it, it's, again IMHO, out of place.

And same will go for any gore descriptions in the game, or explict violence (though this last is more usually accepted among RPG players)
 
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