Can taboos be tasteful?

Is it possible to include taboo themes like incest or bestiality in your game while keeping it somewhat tasteful or at least avoiding magical realm territory?

Probably not bro. But hey, if you want to fuck some dogs and shit in your games I'm not going to stop you.

You'd require a group of very close friends, the sort that can put any kinds of shit to the games without it being weird because they know each other so well. If you have to ask, you probably won't have such a group.

That said, incest is probably still fine. People have married their siblings and cousins across history.

Just have it be taboo.
Like, make it a big fucking deal

More that they exist in the game world than "my character wants some horse pussy"
I had a dungeon planned for a family of inbred Ogres. Like wrong turn but through incest rather than nukes.

Tastefully in fantasy is kinda possible (Game of Thrones did it with Cersei) but RPGs are not conducive to tasteful plot developments in general, let alone on taboo topics.

Fucking Jab, I swear to God
If they could just make a comic featuring hot brown women that wasn't incest, I'd be a happy man

>hot brown women
>incest

But that's the best part about it!

> Regent is keeping duke and duchess's orphans as his wards
> Gets drunk and tries to fuck the girl orphan, who's 19 years old and legally unable to consent
> Girl manages to fight him off, her brother is enraged
> Brother contacts resistance movement and helps his sister escape
> Brother gets captured in the process, then gets tortured for his treason
> Daughter becomes a party follower and major NPC, coordinating the party's rebellion while they're off adventuring
> Regent finds and captures her and uses her as a hostage to get the party to come to heel at a critical moment
> Party reveals that the regent is the girl's father
> The regent cuckolded the old duke and the orphans are half-siblings, rather than full siblings
> Regent looks at the girl, then at the party, then says he has no need for a daughter
> Cuts her throat and kicks her off a catwalk to her death
> Party moves heaven and earth to resurrect her
> She returns at a critical point to kill the regent while he had the party cornered

Taboo count: Incest, rape, ephebophilia, adultery, torture, treason, murder, infanticide and patricide. I don't think anyone thought I was getting my rocks off to the thought of a man drunkenly trying to rape his underage daughter, or later murdering her.

Point is: bad guys break taboos. If they're sexual, they need to be largely implied, rather than outright shown. If they're non sexual, they need to be the moments where the baddie has gone so far past the point of no return that they've broken the odometer of evil.

If a good guy breaks a taboo like that, there needs to be extenuating circumstances, and if they're sexual they need to be implied rather than shown directly. Jackson in Crossed fucks sheep because he's completely insane. Jaime Lannister in ASOIAF is trying to atone for his abusive relationship with his sister, that he didn't initiate. And so on.

Just pick a Druid, if all you want is to imply bestiality.