Mostly forgotten, that is, until I stumbled upon, which has become my favorite web comic (and I don’t follow many webcomics). RPGs amp up the kind of wish-fulfillment present in superhero comic fandom through active engagement with scenarios that ask us to more directly make ethical choices and apply our imaginative powers.įrom Phil Foglio’s What’s New with Phil & Dixie special and intentionally banal “Sex in D&D” episodeĭespite playing D&D and other role-playing games on and off since those days, those kinds of sexualized scenarios and humor (like even more adolescent jokes along the lines of Dave Sim’s Red Sophia) fell away and were no longer a part of the games-mostly forgotten except as a way to put down other less sophisticated ways of gaming and/or to join in the fun of ridiculing a certain stereotype of man-child gamer we didn’t want to have anything to do with. But this was not the first time ridiculous sex has infiltrated our D&D narrative, we were adolescent boys after all, and role-playing games are a great way to explore various possibilities with little to no consequences. Not because I was necessarily above such puerile sex jokes, but because it disrupted the flow of the game, and because I got the feeling that my dedication to gaming was beginning to make me the outsider in a group of friends who were moving on to other interests. “She shoves you in and out her pussy!” He cackled and the other players cackled as well. Describing a scenario in which our heroes encountered a ferocious giantess warrior, one of my buddies, in his role as DM, declared that she picked up the halfling I was playing and used him as a living dildo. It was the summer after 9 th grade and it seemed that our near-constant obsession with sex had finally fully saturated our other pastimes. I remember the last time I tried to play Dungeons & Dragons with a couple of guys I had played RPGs with throughout middle school.
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