As Oli already pointed out, most profanity are pretty old words. They are not at all "modern" as you've implied, so for me, it doesn't take from my immersion. The reason "bloody hell" and "swiving" sound like ye olde fantasy profanity is because you don't hear them very often in real life these days--especially if you're in North America--but hearing "fuck" and "whore" out in the real world is not uncommon.
There seems to be some misconception that modern profanity is not widely used in medieval or fantasy settings. But I'd credit that to the fact we are, obviously, only exposed to medieval and fantasy settings through different media (be it books, TV, movies, games, etc.). Media is highly censored and has to meet certain rating guidelines--and the more explicit the rating of your content, the more you've narrowed your audience/customers. "Fucking" is going to bump up your rating to a higher age limit (and can't even be aired on cable TV). "Swiving" is not. So a lot of fantasy media, like all media in general, is going to shy away from heavy profanity, and will try to find period-appropriate sounding substitutes instead.
Profanity (the same we use now) was probably used just as much, if not more, in olden times as it is now, you're just not going to find that reflected via cable TV or PG-13 movies.
As for my feeling on "bad words" used IC? It's perfectly fine in moderation. If every other word that comes out of someone's character's mouth is a curse word, though, I probably won't want to RP with that person and won't think highly of their writing. Sure, you could argue "it's just their character," but I still have to question why they created that character in such a way and what they get out of it OOC to play that character. The same goes for people who curse every other word OOC, really. I don't like feeling like I'm hanging out with a middle-schooler who just learned all his "bad words" and wants to show off to all his friends while his parents aren't home.
There seems to be some misconception that modern profanity is not widely used in medieval or fantasy settings. But I'd credit that to the fact we are, obviously, only exposed to medieval and fantasy settings through different media (be it books, TV, movies, games, etc.). Media is highly censored and has to meet certain rating guidelines--and the more explicit the rating of your content, the more you've narrowed your audience/customers. "Fucking" is going to bump up your rating to a higher age limit (and can't even be aired on cable TV). "Swiving" is not. So a lot of fantasy media, like all media in general, is going to shy away from heavy profanity, and will try to find period-appropriate sounding substitutes instead.
Profanity (the same we use now) was probably used just as much, if not more, in olden times as it is now, you're just not going to find that reflected via cable TV or PG-13 movies.
As for my feeling on "bad words" used IC? It's perfectly fine in moderation. If every other word that comes out of someone's character's mouth is a curse word, though, I probably won't want to RP with that person and won't think highly of their writing. Sure, you could argue "it's just their character," but I still have to question why they created that character in such a way and what they get out of it OOC to play that character. The same goes for people who curse every other word OOC, really. I don't like feeling like I'm hanging out with a middle-schooler who just learned all his "bad words" and wants to show off to all his friends while his parents aren't home.
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