[Discuss] Vulgarity Option

[Gloria Santos]

I have a major issue against the vulgarity option.  Sure, I understand
Timothy's point about having to play a noble who talks and writes like a
noble.  However, even though I try to emulate a noble of some ambiguous
"medieval" time in a place that "is like Earth but not quite", the truth is
I am still ignorant about the kind of language such a noble would use.

It is not lack of language skills; it's just that sometimes I just can't
plain see that everyday common words are wrong for that context.

I know, for example, that referring to a day in the calendar by the month
and day, instead of by the name of the Catholic saint celebrated that day,
would have been considered vulgar in Spain.  It was also rude to not bless
people when they leave, or to make any reference to the future without
mentioning God's will.  I am not going to do something like that in
Battlemaster because that particular religion that exists in real life Earth
will never exist in the BM world.

I don't know, therefore, what the purpose of the vulgarity option is.  We do
not have a clear reference of how a noble in the BM world should
communicate.  And I bet anything we write would be considered vulgar by
medieval standards.  And isn't it true that the vulgarity option was
supposed to be a tool to encourage roleplay?  So, marking someone as a
vulgar would be like saying "you are not roleplaying well enough".  That
does not make the game as lightweight as it claims to be.
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