Sealed Pages in Dragon--Contents inside!

[Arcane Runes Press]

From the description of the spell "Corpsebond":

"During the casting of this spell, the caster must copulate with a corpse of any size or shape."

...stuff then peels off the corpse and bonds with the casters body.

The spell "Searing Seed" causes fluid to impregnate the victim, with a 1d3 round gestation period at the end of which the "vile, teratic baby" claws its way outside. It grows to adulthood in one round, though, so its not quite so disgusting as an evil baby that continues to attack the characters.

Now, when I look back at when I was eight, I'm somewhat horrified by some of the things we talked about. Stuff like this never came up, though. Times change, I guess.

But what can you do, the kids love it.

Wow.

Honestly, that doesn't strike me as so much "mature content" as it's simply dumb.

Fan-fic quality horror schlock.

Ah well. I won't judge the content solely on a couple snippets, so I'll reserve final judgement til the issue hits stores.

Patrick Y.

 

[Buttercup]

2. From Dragon: Spell: Wall o' Maggots. Easier to punch through than Wall of Iron, but ewwwwww. Memo to Self: Look up disease rules for gutsy characters.

The maggots in this spell are voracious, so anyone who touches the wall sustains 1d4 points damage per two caster levels, up to 10d4, reflex save halves. If you're caught in the wall, you immediately take damage, and are considered entangled. "Maggots fill their vision and flood into their mouths."

Oh this is one heck of a spell, alright!

 

[Buttercup]

Am i missing something? where did buttercup get this info from?

From the magazine that was in her mailbox when she got home last night. Unfortunately, I left my reading glasses at work, so it was too much of a chore to do more than skim the magazine. But I took the time to gently cut apart the sealed section and browse. I missed the spell about copulating with a corpse though. I'm glad someone else mentioned it, since it wasn't my intention to gloss over anything, it's just that I'm stuck without much closeup vision until I get my glasses off my desk!

 

[s/LaSH]

Lets see we are discussing how a swarm of maggots can form a lich, a wall, a golem and so fourth and you are concerned about maggots breeding?????

Here is the Answer- MAGIC

Well, did you know aphids can be born pregnant? I don't think it's insect incest either... just that some insect females can reproduce without males (only having female offspring, of course). So the Answer could also be SCIENCE!

Of course, if this was the source of the maggots, they'd all be clones, genetically identical. Which I suspect would be the result of magical duplication as well, unless they're construct maggots... a whole new can of worms, if you will.

Sorry about that. It hurt me as much as it hurt you.

 

[Nathanael]

Oh...my...God.

After hearing the descriptions of just two of the spells in the 'mature' section, I'm more convinced than ever that this is the wrong way for D&D to go. I mean, come on people? How can you consider that to be acceptable content? It's not only pornographic, it's thoroughly disgusting!

A lot of you have 'strongly disagreed,' to put it mildly, with my concerns on the way this will be perceived within and without the game community. But ask yourselves what kind of a ruckus this is going to raise when some underage gamer with a subscription gets this in his parent's mailbox and they check the mail...

 

[Buttercup]

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, Nathanael. I think you worry too much. And I don't think any of it that I've seen so far is further afield than you can find on TV any day of the week. Don't buy the book/don't watch the program. It's your choice.

Now, let's get back to talking about maggots.

 

[Henry]

...But ask yourselves what kind of a ruckus this is going to raise when some underage gamer with a subscription gets this in his parent's mailbox and they check the mail...

The answer is going to be "little to none."

While the " cop' a corpse" spell is more than a little disgusting, those who don't want their children playing D&D won't be getting this issue anyway. Even if they did, what could they possibly say? The contents are sealed, for goodness sake!

Finally, it's not like this is the "bold, new direction" that D&D is taking - it's one issue, and one manual. Unless droves of readers write in and yell, "MORE CORPSE NOOKIE! MORE MUTANT BABIES!" then I doubt you are going to see very much of it by Wizards or Paizo.

I am looking forward to the actual material, just to see what material I can use.

 

[Leopold]

it's vile, it's gross, it's horrorific, heck guys it's HALLOWEEN!!!

 

[barsoomcore]

But ask yourselves what kind of a ruckus this is going to raise when some underage gamer with a subscription gets this in his parent's mailbox and they check the mail...

None. Nobody cares, Nathanael. This sort of stuff gets served up in teen comedies nowadays. Comic books, movies -- it's everywhere. It's schlock, it's socially acceptable.

At the most there may be some snide report on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. Wizards should be so lucky.

 

[barsoomcore]

MORE CORPSE NOOKIE! MORE MUTANT BABIES!