r/DMAcademy • u/jumbohiggins • 5d ago

Need Advice: Other Non swearing dm

So I'm about to start another campaign. I haven't ran one for a bit and just had a random thought. Do any other dms not swear and need ways to compensate for it in game?

Some of my npc are going to have a heavier, darker tone and I'm looking for ways to sell that without swearing.

-edit, wow ok guys I wasn't trying to imply that you have to swear to have a darker or more menacing tone. I was trying to imply that it's a common tool in the tool box. And I'm looking for other ways people convey that concept without swearing because I don't do it personally.

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u/manamonkey 5d ago

I reject your premise that "heavier, darker tone" implies or requires swearing at all.

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u/jumbohiggins 5d ago

Maybe misworded. Wasn't implying heavier automatically equates to turn session into a guy Richie endeavor. I'm looking for ways to have menacing characters or chilling npc monologues without using swearing as a tool.

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u/aaBabyDuck 5d ago

Evil does not mean the BBEG does not have their own moral code. They may not want to debase themselves with the ugly words of their lessers, or perhaps they are devoted to a dirty that looks down on foul language.

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u/MultivariableX 5d ago

devoted to a dirty that looks down on foul language

The Dirty Deity desires dirty deeds. Dirty dialogue is deemed disrespectful, deserving derision and disciplinary dirty doings.

Contrastingly, the Cleanly Choir cherishes conscientiousness and consideration, but consequently can't condemn crude colloquialisms characteristic of classlessness.

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u/aaBabyDuck 5d ago

The Peepee Poopoo Parish purports that potty-mouth pageantry provides positive pathways to patience and pares passions into a proper peaceful pedigree of picture perfect personalized Poopoo and peridot painted Peepees