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ArlEammon
2017-12-10, 12:57 PM
Being that Wolfenstein mixes the real with the unreal worlds of the 1940's to the 1960's, would it be allowed to have a role play based on it?

Roland St. Jude
2017-12-10, 10:44 PM
Being that Wolfenstein mixes the real with the unreal worlds of the 1940's to the 1960's, would it be allowed to have a role play based on it?Sheriff: That's an incredibly broad question. Wolfenstein covers a broad range of material and the Forum Rules cover a lot of content. Please review the Forum Rules and make sure your game follows all of those rules. We generally advise posters to find another forum for games that heavily feature Nazis, particularly as protagonists. There's just far too much potential to violate the Forum Rules. If you keep to the very simple Nazi-hunter first-person-shooter mode of Wolfenstein, that might not be a problem. But if you give much depth to your Third Reich or create any Nazi protagonists, that's more likely to be problematic.

As a general matter, while real world religion and politics are broadly prohibited here, in the context of a PbP game, what happens in the IC thread is not real world- it's part of your fiction. Avoiding discussion real world religion or politics in your OOC is usually enough in most circumstances. Using the old fictional trick of changing the names (for example, using "President Jones" instead of the actual current U.S. President) can be helpful.

It's up to you to decide whether what you have planned can be done here within the Forum Rules. I recommend erring on the side of caution.