Ok I'm way late to this topic and I'm not doing it because I think I'm anyone in the geek-blog-o-sphere cares about my opinion. I do this blog to vent, and enjoy catharsis about games and basically to place-hold thoughts, put down ideas for friends to view at their leisure, etc. if anyone else out there cares enough to read any of my crazy gonzo ... awesome.
Anyway apparently there is a blog called Playing D&D With Pornstars and apparently the proprietor of said Blog has done a cool video blog/webisode of a D&D game at the escapist. That in and of itself would be cool ... anything that promotes tabletop gaming is great in my book. Apparently though (as the name of the blog denotes) this guy happens to have some really cool friends from the porn industry (what a lucky bastard I say) who are playing in his game ... INCLUDING SASHA GREY and other notable porn actresses. Apparently this has caused some negative commentary by geeks ... what??? Huh??? I'm in shock ... how??
Perversion aside ... how is this bad? A) its free publicity in the geek realms for tabletop gaming B) There are plenty of connections between segments of the gaming industry and erotica already ... and has been since the early days. So whats the problem?
I applaud Zak's blog in all its forms and the escapist for doing this and everyone involved. Kudos to them all! I've also signed up as a follower of Zak's blog as its a damn good one as far as I'm concerned ... porn stars or no porn stars. Also as a warning if your a moral christian who is into judgment you might not want to read my blog. I'm a very happy atheist who reviles all organized religion and all right wing bigotry and censorship! You've been warned :)
3 comments:
The two markets really should get along better. From my experience a lot of gamers like porn. I am often confused why gaming can't be more adult in not only subject matter, but also visual matter.
I think that as time goes on you'll see more and more of this. I'm less surprised about a lack of tabletop "adult" titles (though they do exist) than I am about an adult MMO. Age of Conan went there ... hopefully that isn't the last attempt. I think that genre has astounding growth potential.
Some of the commentary I'm seeing out there in the blogosphere on this issue have yielded some good points on this. My favorite ( commonsensical) point is basically that you have to look at RPGs as literature. There is a wide range available out there from Dr. Seuss/Children Section to Adults Only. As a parent there is no way I'd let my young kids near many RPGs nor would I have them at the table with most of my gaming groups. There is too much gore, hardcore adult language, etc. that is why we tend to play (when I host) after 7 or 8 PM when all the kids have been bundled off to sleep. If and when I run games for the kids they will be age appropriate. As a parent Zak's blog, nor the concept of porn stars playing D&D is offensive to me. Again I won't rehash my post ... but its an "Adult's only" section reading item ... and from its placement I utterly fail to see how anyone could be offended. I am endlessly enraged by thought police and censorship, book burning conservative idiocy. To me that is what this "controversy" boiled down to. People who don't want to see that blog don't have to look at it ... period. Hopefully this all dies down and people get back to talking about the games themselves. ... Ok ... Ok .. baring a major development on this one I'm done ... and now getting down from my soap box about it :)
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