On Reddit’s DPP this entire setting has been forbidden for years, even if all characters are 18+. Is that the same here?
Might be a good idea to discuss all the little rule clarifications here if the rest of you have any other questions!
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I think anything that hints to underage should be forbidden here.
I’m really not sure how an RP about an 18 year old high school student “hints to underage”
i dont see the problem as long as it’s explicit that it’s 18+, but if you had to make this post, surely you can sort of see how it might hint to underage.
if you had to make this post, surely you can sort of see how it might hint to underage.
I made this post because this forum shares the name of a subreddit which has a rule against high school settings regardless of the ages of the characters involved. So no, I still can’t. Enlighten me.
95% of high schoolers are underage. Setting a story there thus “hints” that the characters involved are underage unless otherwise stated.
One of the RP subs on reddit required a disclaimer in every post, something like:
I am 18+ and so does all the characters and people involved.
I found it kind of annoying since posts without it would be auto-delete. Sometimes one forgets to add that.
But if that’s what it takes, oh well.
It’s actually a good question, as long a character are 18+, I don’t see why it would be a problem as long as it’s realtively explicitly stated. We can start by allowing it for now a revise it at a later time if that becomes problematic in one way or another.
Which reminds me that I should update the rules, haven’t had much time this week and the app is not really useful for this!
I feel like it would have to be a case by case basis, but almost always not okay.
I think the question to ask is: How important is the fact that the character is in high school specifically? Why is that important, and would it be meaningfully changed if you just said they were a freshman in a small college or university?
For example, do you want to play our a scene between two 18 year old high school seniors getting together after their senior prom? I think that would be totally fine and is a reasonable scene.
A teacher/student fantasy? Would it be that different if you changed it to teacher/student in a college setting?
The main issue people will have is the usual range of high school students is 14-18 years old. So 80% of them are underage. While in college, you’re almost always running into students who are 18-22 years old. 100% of legal age and no issues.
I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts. I genuinely feel like almost all high school style prompts can be changed to college with 0 effects on the scene.
