Lines and Veils

A slightly more thorough exploration of this topic and tools can be found here: What do the terms "lines" and "veils" mean?or frankly, any number of places by searching online for “rpg lines and veils”.
Please do take a moment to check it out if you’d like additional insight than what I’m providing. But in short, to quote.

A line is, well, a line — a hard limit, something we do not want to cross. Lines represent places we don't want to go in roleplaying.
A veil is a "pan away" or "fade to black" moment. When we veil something, we're making it a part of the story, but keeping it out of the spotlight. Think of it as a way to still deal with certain themes while avoiding having to describe them in graphic detail.

This is a game about heroic people encountering, fighting against, and enduring unrealistically unpleasant things, over and over again. For example, I have never killed anyone, even in self defense. I have never robbed anyone, much less combined the two and looted their corpse. But it is likely that your characters will do so, on a routine basis, justified or otherwise.

These are the Broken Hill Adventurer’s Guild’s lines and veils:

Lines:

• Rape.

It has no place in the real world, it has even less place in a fantasy world that we use to escape the real world to enjoy ourselves. Even in the context of establishing a bad guy as mega-bad, it isn’t necessary to go here.

Veils:

• Torture.
• Child Abuse.

If these are even ever mentioned, they will only EVER be just that, mentioned, at most. Never described, never role-played, never elaborated upon. Bad guys can be defined as bad guys, without going into detail on these topics.

Addendum:

• Flirting and sex.

These are lovely, fun, delightful parts of our adult lives, but I have no interest as a DM or player in role-playing much more than cursory in- character flirting, unless it's *absolutely* story-crucial, and whenever at all possible, it will be relegated to a basic description and a die roll. Forcing someone (or subjecting your bystanding fellow players) to listen to graphic descriptions of this nature, or worse, compelling them to participate is just not going to happen. Any and all sex will take place entirely in an ‘off-screen’ or ‘fade-to-black’ manner.
***I want every guild member, every one of us, no exceptions, on or before their first session they play to take a look at this list, and if there is something, ANYTHING, that hasn’t already been mentioned that you do not want to experience in-game, please bring it to my attention personally, or find a way to do so anonymously, if you would be more comfortable, and I will add it to the above list, and make sure everybody is aware of it. With a large revolving cast of players, it simply isn’t enough to have the half- dozen people who show up on the first night to pay casual lipservice to the topic, mumble an awkward agreement, and move on.***