My players are... drawing penises everywhere.

This probably isn't the correct part of the forum for feature-requests, but please, let me turn "drawing" off for all or certain players. The culprits are long time friends of mine, but they have a childish streak. I would feel much more confident with confronting them about their ass-hattery if I could actually back it up with some tangible threat, like disabling their ability to draw on the map. Thanks for reading my outburst. :P

I'd love to have the ability to disable this as well. My players also draw penises on everything, and It's not something that's a big enough deal to throw a tantrum and threaten to quit over. But it is something I'd like to stop.

Great advice! I'll just have to figure out the best way to tell them so cease. :)

I've tried to get players to stop drawing penises, but it's hard.

Yeah. +1 on being able to turn that off for people. And, on a related note, might someone be willing to move this over to suggestions?

Thank you kindly Kristin. :)

For mentor-level subscribers, this script will automatically hide any newly created path on the Object layer. It does this by scaling it until it is invisible, moving it to the GM layer, and shifting it off screen. If we ever get the ability to destroy objects, I'd rather do it that way. This should thoroughly discourage your phallus fixated players. You'll need to draw paths on a different layer and copy them to the Object layer if you need them there. Alternatively, you could disable the script if you need to do some bulk path creation. on("ready", function (){ on("add:path", function (obj){ if(obj.get('layer') == 'objects') obj.set({layer: 'gmlayer', scaleX:.001, scaleY:.001, top:-20, left:-20}); }); });

I have found that a landing page is immensely helpful, for multiple reasons. Relevant to this thread, I've encouraged my players to doodle all they want on the landing page, and they seem less inclined to draw things elsewhere. That said, the OOC Room in my current campaign does not contain any penises, so lack of doodles on my other pages may simply be a matter of mature players. One of my players did draw of a shark and a drawing of Australia, with a note next to them claiming they're to-scale with one another. (The shark is... half the size of Australia.)

They ARE to scale, but not a regular shark. It's the magical Australian Giant Shark, which for some reason is called a shaaaaaaa'k. :-) It's also the only known thing that can distract role-players from drawing penises, which has become simply epidemic!

This was drawn on the first or second session: This was after the most recent session: (The campaign is set in MLP; the pony is one of the PCs.)

With skills like that, I'd let them keep drawing. I am a little disappointed though. From what I know of Australia, that spider in the first pic should be at least as large as the shark.

I'm not sure if my player group even realizes they have drawing tools at their disposal. If they are aware, they've never been tempted to abuse them.

John M. said: With skills like that, I'd let them keep drawing. I am a little disappointed though. From what I know of Australia, that spider in the first pic should be at least as large as the shark. To be fair, the player that drew the second picture is an artist; she's made several pictures depicting the campaign on her DeviantArt account.

I was running Rise of the Runelords for my friends, who are both professional artists. They drew differently styled penis shrines in each section for each deity. I just learned to let it go.

Jesse S. said: I was running Rise of the Runelords for my friends, who are both professional artists. They drew differently styled penis shrines in each section for each deity. I just learned to let it go. I guess I just don't get the fascination with phallus drawing. I'd chalk it up to adolescents being adolescents but it doesn't wash. I've been playing RPGs since I was 16 years old. We didn't have Roll20 in those days but we did have vinyl battlemats and marker pens and it never occurred to any of us to draw d**ks all over the place.

Brett , you should try playing with 3 (adult) women sometime. They are far worse than most adolescent males.

The temptation to post penis ascii art....

HoneyBadger said: The temptation to post penis ascii art.... Might as well, apparently there's a sizeable (see what I did there?) fan base for all things phallic around here.

Headhunter Jones said: I've tried to get players to stop drawing penises, but it's hard. Must... resist... temptation... ARGH! To hell with it. Erection joke.