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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Depends what you mean by "pretend"?
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I mean this:
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
Mild examples are when two soldiers in a war zone in a sci-fi game is talking, and the phrase "save your sorry ass" has been to changed "save your sorry butt", to avoid an M-rating. The infamous f-word becomes "frick" or "frig", and the well-know synonym for fecal matter becomes "shoot", for the same reason.
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And I agree, it needs to fit the setting. Shakespeare's characters say "by Jove" because that was their equivalent of taking the Lord's name in vain in a very crude way. Conan swears by Erlik and Seth, since that matches the setting he's in, and so on... it's all about consistently following the context the character is in.
I'm just about to start playing a rouge character in an AD&D campaign, and I fully intend to let my character refer to Myrkul's private parts when she swears. Matter of fact, thinking up how the characters in the Forgotten Realms would cuss is one of the more entertaining aspects of preparing for the campaign.
