Are magical realms always bad in games, or is it dependant on the group itself?
no infact sometiem its goooooooooooood
Yes.
Maybe.
>>46764508
If everyone's cool with it then it's fine. But it's the sort of thing you should talk about with your group with beforehand.
Magical realm means you're forcefully inserting your fetishes at the player's expense.
>>46764607
Some players like it rough and forceful.
>>46764533
When or why? Please describe some examples.
>>46764508
>Are magical realms always bad in games
Talking about what makes you hard is inappropriate in any context outside the bedroom.
My fetishes make decent enough horror, and they get me rock hard under the table. It's a win win.
>>46764820
Your assertion is incorrect.
Loosen your ass.
>tfw magical realm actually ends up hugely impacting the setting and completely changing the course of the game and fate of the world
I'm looking at you, Gregory.
>>46764508
If I recall magical realm specifically refers to cases when it wildly clashes with the group, so... kinda?
>>46764508
>so is this an absolute or does it depend on the context
HMMM I DONT KNOW OP WHAT WOULD YOU GUESS
Depends on the group and how in your face the fetish is
>>46764989
"Magical Realm" is thrown around a lot so it's lost a lot of its meaning. The original point of the comic was the GM was graphically telegraphing his fetishes to the players through the game world This continued even after the players explicitly told him to stop.
I can't speak for everyone, but I can't imagine exposing my players to what gets me off. That's for me to know, not them. Likewise, I can't imagine playing a game where the GM keeps trying to tell me he thinks torture porn is hot.
>>46764922
If thinking it's off-color to tell people my sex fantasies makes me a tightass, then I guess my ass will remain tight.
>>46764967
I know that feel, and man is it good.
>>46765074
It gets old really quickly
>>46765074
I guess as a guy who's sexual fantasies mostly just include getting to have sex again with one of the three people I've had sex with I just can't really ruin many plots because my fetish is just sex. And honestly, if the magical world isn't populated with people occasionally throwing themselves at one or another of the heroes, what's the point of even going to town?
>>46765140
Sex in a game isn't automatically magical realm. I wouldn't say it's inappropriate to mention to a player the local cute redhead is flirting with them, though depending on the player that might be a little awkward. Honestly, my kinks are pretty vanilla as well. So even if I didn't think it's creepy to broadcast your fetishes it would still fly over most people's heads unless I tried really fucking hard.
Magical realm is where you constantly bombard players with weird fetish shit for no reason but to relish in showing off your powerlevels. For example, occasionally throwing in belly-dancers because you have an ab fetish isn't magical realm. Building an entire dungeon around horrifying snuff play certainly is, at least if it's obvious you think it should be arousing rather than terrifying.
>>46765249
So, basically magical realm is taking any thread from /d/ and using it to make an NPC or monster?
>>46764533
>>46764540
>>46764564
Ask not the Eldar a question.
Unless the group is actively looking for sexy stuff, why would magical realm ever be good?
Why are people so driven to shove their fetishes into games? If you want to ERP, go find a group that wants to ERP.
>>46765337
basically.
>>46765337
>So, basically magical realm is taking any thread from /d/ and using it to make an NPC or monster?
>>46766238
>basically.
Nah, since half wouldn't look out of place in a fantasy setting anyways, while another quarter would slip under the players radar.
>>46764508
Yes, magical realm is when unwanted fetishes are forced into the game. If the fetishes in the game are acknowledged and accepted then it isn't really magical realm.
Magical realm specifically refers to a GM forcing his or her own fetishes into a game without the agreement or desire of the players, which negatively effects their enjoyment of the game. I don't see how actively making a game worse for your players can ever be good.
>>46764508
My group stops at fantasy sodomy.
We call it the "Popobawa Doctrine", or "that time fucking Hadrian droped a rapist batman out of nowhere. Fuck that guy".
>>46766816
I'm 100% positive that if I used that monster in any game it would not slip past the radar.
And my players would have a hard time looking me in the eye after.
>>46764508
group dependent, the GM actually defers to me on the technical matters of proper restraint
>>46764820
>Talking about what makes you hard is inappropriate in any context outside the bedroom.
or fetish parties, or informal munches, or online, or on a date with someone you have the intention of doing things with later...
Most of the time it makes people seriously uncomfortable
>But I have this group who
Most people arent furry tier when it comes to fetishes outside the bedroom (or faproom)
If you need to ask, that means you shouldn't because you lack basic self-awareness.
In general, if you're wondering if it's a good idea, that means it's gonna be a bad idea.
Just spend your time and energy on worrying about aspects of the game that won't lead to someone in your group dedicating a that guy story to you.
Yeah. It's just boils down to twelve minutes of intense action and then two hours of mellowness.
By definition magical realm is bad, if it's not bad then it's not magical realm, but just a game that has fetish(es) and sexuality.
>>46765337
Not necessarily from /d/, magical realm could be pretty vanilla (like GM forcing female players to dress sexy according to his liking), but is pretty likely to have rape (being inflicted on PCs, not your average NPC raping) in some form.
The key point is that magical realming is always about GM looking for a cheap way to satisfy his fetishes in expense of players. It's a fetish insertion that makes no sense in relation to setting and plot and annoys or disturbs players. Just having fetish stuff in game if they make sense (for example raping tentacle monsters in horror context) and players like it doesn't make it magical realm.
>>46764746
Depends on the nature of the game. If you're playing with strangers, it's bad. If you're playing with close friends/SO's then it can be funny or even cheeky.
I have a thing for petite girls and my DM for PF long away was a 5'4" asian cutie who was super lewd, and for once I had a reasonable love interest who was a draconic sorceress self-insert.
Another player who she was seeing at the time had a Submission thing, and her love interest was the dominating elf BBEG. Well he wasn't that big, or , so more like just Bad Evil Guy.
So anyway our Sorceress enjoys playing the submissive slave, the GM gets off on her exhibition fetish, and I can tuck all this back as I jack it toorganic and wholesome relationships between PC's and NPC's.
We even had a guy who was totally cool with this as long as we didn't drag him into it, so he got the sultry forest ranger who kept trying to seduce him and nothing passed that.
That said, if your magical realm is more like rape slaves and pissing in a bridge trolls mouth, maybe check if that's cool with people.
Alternatively, some advice I received a while back. If the amazons don't make it a point to show they are futa, then the players never have to know they dared enter your magical realm.
>>46772118
>funny or even cheeky.
I'd classify sexuality in funny/cheeky way as something completely different than magical realm. I mean I don't remember having played a game (of multiple sessions, I remember few completely non-sexual one shots) that didn't involve atleast one case of some kind of sexuality related joke. Whether it's innocious like flamboyant gay elf or something raunchy like orc assrape handled in non-serious black comedy kind of way.
>>46772470
I can definitely see that, but there are pretty varying degrees of what people consider "Magical realm" on this board so I figured I'd cover from the moderate to the extreme end.
Personally, the groups I play with vary, so while there's a slutty sorceress tease in one who goes out of her way to fuck everything, another is in a setting so grim the one time we tried to have a romance I'm now a fucking vampire.
Turns out the GM fading to black wasn't sparing us the butt-play so much as it was him charming me and beginning a ritual of which I later had no memory of.Well fucking done, Kevin
Well when people have a Gore fetish it's kinda hard to avoid in a dungeon crawler.
Some are extremely attracted to a certain skin color or social position as well.
Chances are you used your player's fetish at least once during a campaign.
>>46764508
If everyone wants the sexual/fetish content, it's an ERP. If one or more people in the game are forcing it on the rest, it's a magical realm. So yes, magical realms are always bad by definition.
Magic realm is always bad. You are in a group of people with the intent to play make-believe fantasy and you are injecting your uncomfortable fetishes into the game and forcing other people to watch as you describe your character anally fucking the prepubescent anthro cat.
>>46764508
Magical realm is when it is forced on other players to experience someone else's fetish's.
Erotic roleplaying is when everyone is in on it and is enjoying it.
magical realm is inherently bad because it means that you are forcing someone to experience your's (or someone else's) specific fetish's.
If you go towards fetishy area and everyone is fine with it, then its not magical realm, its just a roleplay getting a bit on the risky.
>>46764508
By definition magical realms are bad.
However, lewd campaigns and lewd moment where everyone is on board are not.
>>46773774
>If everyone wants the sexual/fetish content, it's an ERP.
Not necessarily. ERP is when PCs actually roleplay having sex with each other or NPCs on a regular basis and erotic action is main point of the game.
Games can have sexual content (and especially fetish content since that might be something simple as certain kinds of clothes) without ever going to ERP territory and it's fairly common.
>The DM's magical realm is your own magical realm
>>46774137
Also to make an example:
FATAL is not ERPG, but rather failed autistic rulemonster that has raunchy (and juvenile) sexual "humor" of arguably very poor taste as one of things it focuses heavily on.
Zettai Reido however is an actual ERPG because it's about playing sex slaves and it's generally all about sex.
>>46764508
Everything magical realm is bad.
Everything is magical realm.
Therefore, everything is bad.
My logic is undeniable!
>>46774275
>because it's about playing sex slaves and it's generally all about sex.
Hey, it's about sex slavers too.
Sometimes both actually.
Usually both.
My GM is badly into vore, but I never saw glimpses of it inside the games, except for, you know, monsters who swallow heroes, that kinda stuff. Which he doesn't even put often because he fears it would be magical realm.
On the other side, I'm into lolis (luckily AoC here is 14 years, kek) and I have some difficulty at descripting "sexy women" when putting enemy spies, assassins or just a plain ol'succubus since I don't know what's likeable and I limit myself at stuff like "I guess she's got curves and everything". Lucky shit I usually play with murderhobos who don't care.
>>46765249
>Sex in a game isn't automatically magical realm
Yes it is. That's entirely the point -
The only way the validity of short stories about your micropeen is "dependent on the group" is if you're in therapy. If your games use sexual mechanics to move the plot, then you're in an eRPG - circle-jerking with a bunch of faggots and wouldn't know Magical Realm if it sounded their asses with a wire brush.
Stay in /d/ and out of these threads.
If you're not in an eRPG, your sad crotch obsession is a personal problem - not the group's. Lolraep is not funny, just disruptive, and jacking it at the GM's dinner table is beyond rude.
Save the drama fo' yo' Mama.
>>46765944
Underrated post.
>>46764508
The only ever game I have ever been in, an Exalted 2e game, was ruined by a pedo and his catgirl loli, so yes.
Granted, that dude was like an actual pedo and wanted to make a character in another game a CP "actress" so it wasn't so much the character as him himself.
>>46764508
By definition, magical realming is forcing your fetish into the game to the point where the other players are uncomfortable, so yes, they're always bad.
If you mean "is including fetish content in games always bad or does it depend on the group", it depends on the group.
>>46766816
>Bluff +40
>"Hey kid, I got some candy over here. Why don't you snuggle REAL close to me and I'll share?"
