Quote Originally Posted by Cigaran View Post
I personally wouldn't mind a pipe or an emote that triggered one. However with the over the top purge that is going on with smoking in the US, I'd half expect a push for the ESRB to rate the game AO just for a hint of smoking being in the game.
I thought about that too, but since there are already NPCs that smoke, isn't the damage already done, so to speak? I'm no expert on the rating criteria of the ESRB, but I'd have to think that they wouldn't quantify the offense of a player character engaged in tobacco use over an NPC. In all honesty, I'd be happy just to have the ability to hold the pipe like Aideen does. A smoking animation would be really cool and immersive, but I'd be happy with less if it was the difference between something like this making it into the game or not.

(Ironically, IRL, I'm not a smoker of any kind. When I made my character, something about her made me think that she may smoke a pipe. Go figure.)