Oak wrote:Personally, I'm wondering what happens if you're going for a surprise attack? Let's say you grab a man's testicles as a means of coercion and squeeze them to get him to comply to something. In a case of stereotypical extortion, for example, or if you're looking for quick information about something. Would that be considered sexual harassment? Its purpose is pain, not sexual gratification of any kind.
Same goes for when you're in a fight that you're actually roleplaying and not just brawling it out, do you have to stop and take the time to get into an OOC agreement about whether or not you can take the cheap shot to the balls? This gives your party the possibility to almost inevitably metagame and prepare for your upcoming nut grab. What then?
Seriously I'm of opinion that this shit has been taken too far. Of course, not being okay with your character being raped because it may trigger awkward or undesired emotions and unpleasantness is fine, and needing OOC permission to roleplay rape or sexual humiliation torture is a good rule.
But seriously, taking it to the forums for "non-consentual roleplay" when you take a hit to your balls (which clearly has no sexual tone to it and is merely a means to win a fight) is immature to say the least. Do you run to your mommy every time something like that happens, or do you deal with it on your own? It's the same here, only mommy is an admin looking over your pathetic forum report instead of mommy solving the problems for you.
Tell you what. Next time someone robs me I'll report them for "offensive roleplay". Robbing certainly is offensive as it may bring up uncomfortable feelings or trigger a memory of one happening IRL. Changes to this rule which were brought in latest revision need to be thought out (in my opinion) because it may become a very disputed precedent. People can find excuses for everything to be offensive if they may lose anything from their character, and people
will look for ways to hide behind rules when roleplay doesn't go their way.