Editing Magical realm (section)

==Drawing the Line==

It is inevitable that GMs, being at heart storytellers, will let their desires and interests bleed into a narrative without trying to get off. A horse loving DM may not constantly pimp-out centaurs with big dicks or beautiful female bodies, but he will very likely pay great attention to mount mechanics and try to sneak in a centaur character or two wherever they can plausibly fit the game, or in the very least make many horse references. These are ''not'' the DM's that have a magical realm. Despite what [[/pol/]] may (read: will) tell you, caring about something is not a crime.

A [[/d/M]] is someone who ''only'' dotes on the concepts that get him (let's be honest, they are almost always male; women who would otherwise /d/M tend to [[Twilight|write terrible fiction]] instead) off, and try to draw other players to appreciate his fetishes via quests and requests. (see the piss comic above)

A lot of threads about magical realms on /tg/ are anons trying to find the precise line when something goes from "fantastical" to "perverse". As with debates regarding furries, [[beastfolk]] [[Furry#Monstergirls_vs._Furries|and monstergirls]], the primary keys are context, context, context, and the sanity with which the concept is approached.

For a specific example, take [[Empire of the Petal Throne]]. One of the potential PC races are the ''Mihalli'': shapeshifting alien [[wizard]]s whose "default" form is [[furry|a humanoid lion with 4-6 breasts]] and who are reputed to be [[dickgirl|hermaphroditic]]. And, to be honest, "multi-tittied herm lioness wizard" sounds like [[Chakat|something straight out of a deviantArt page...]] but here's the thing: all the non-human PC races are similarly strange in one way or another. One species faces four directions at once and has eight biological sexes; another has members who resemble glass sculptures and act as a eusocial hivemind. The writers don't spend twice as many paragraphs describing their mysterious girl-dicks as the other races, they don't get the [[Mary Sue]] treatment (they have, in fact, been nuked by the local humans in their recent past and haven't recovered) and are otherwise treated as just another weird detail in the very weird place that is Tekumel.

Another thing to consider is the intent and nature of the work. Something that is openly and explicitly about sex (e.g. [[Cybering]]) is ''not'' considered magical realm by default because the sex is what you're there for, so complaining about it is like ordering a sandwich then complaining that it has bread on it. You're a willing participant, not having something forced onto you. The exception that proves the rule, of course, is when the erotic content is very much not what you signed up for. There's also something to be said for the interests of the group as a whole: one gaming group may laugh as the [[Bard]] has hot steamy sex with a [[Beholder]], the next may get uncomfortable just from some light flirting with an [[NPC]]. This is why it's a good idea to have a session zero to set expectations before there's any chance for hurt feelings to develop.

Now you know. [https://youtube.com/watch?v=dzyh_nEuh3M And knowing is half the battle!]