Book of Exalted Deeds - I don't get it...

[bekkilyn_rpg]

I just went to look at the new cover image and description for this book on the WOTC site and it says this book is for "mature audiences?" What could possibly be in this book which would require such a rating? I realize it's supposed to be a "second in a series" after the Book of Vile Darkness (though I had no idea the BOVD was supposed to be part of a series in the first place) but sheesh, do people really get horribly offended by acts of goodness and well-being?

 

[hong]

I just went to look at the new cover image and description for this book on the WOTC site and it says this book is for "mature audiences?" What could possibly be in this book which would require such a rating? I realize it's supposed to be a "second in a series" after the Book of Vile Darkness (though I had no idea the BOVD was supposed to be part of a series in the first place) but sheesh, do people really get horribly offended by acts of goodness and well-being?

Well, judging from the contents of the Book of Vile Darkness, that most notorious tome of filth and debauchery, the Book of Exalted Deeds will probably contain the antithesis of the NIPPLE CLAMPS OF EXQUISITE PAIN.


Hong "can't wait to taste the TONGUE STUD OF ULTIMATE BLISS" Ooi

 

[Majin Cthulhu]

I believe it's for " mature audiences" because it contains descriptions of what is considered "good" in d&d. This may be different from what any given individual may feel to be "good" and may conflict with many people's takes on morality and ethics. Since it contains a detailed stance on morality, it is best left to mature audiences.

At least thats what I seem to recall the reason being.

edit: grammar and such.

 

[Henry]

I aksed James Wyatt about this at Gencon (one-on-one, no less - I love this hobby!) , and his answer was that various topics of levels of moral ambiguity, the nature of good and evil, etc. were covered. So according to him, its "mature" rating doesn't have to do with graphic displays, so much as its coverage of "gray areas" between good and evil.

 

[bekkilyn_rpg]

Re: Re: Book of Exalted Deeds - I don't get it...

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Hong "can't wait to taste the TONGUE STUD OF ULTIMATE BLISS" Ooi

hahahaha

In this case, I'm definitely sold on this one.

I suppose I can understand the "grey issue" thing but it still seems very strange (and humorous in many ways as Hong pointed out.)

hahaha

 

[Anubis the Doomseer]

Given that 'Vile Darkness' was about as mature as a White Wolf Black Dog book I hold no real hope that Exalted Deeds is going to be worth the papaer is will be printed on.

- Ma'at

 

[Morrus]

I don't think that the word "mature" is synonymous with "graphic sex and violence". The word means that the themes are more suited to mature gamers - in the same way that, say, The West Wing is aimed at a more mature audience than Masters of the Universe or Pokemon.

 

[hong]

I don't think that the word "mature" is synonymous with "graphic sex and violence".

Yeah, well, you know that, and I know that, but clearly the people who came up with the NIPPLE CLAMPS OF EXQUISITE PAIN don't know that.

 

[Henry]

Yeah, well, you know that, and I know that, but clearly the people who came up with the NIPPLE CLAMPS OF EXQUISITE PAIN don't know that.

Stay Away From My Nipple Clamps.

 

[DonAdam]

So according to him, its "mature" rating doesn't have to do with graphic displays, so much as its coverage of "gray areas" between good and evil.

Oh, so you mean that he's using the word mature to refer to something that a mature person would be interested in, rather than something that adolescent boys would be interested in but their parents don't want them to see?

I like it. I'm a crazy moral traditionalist, so I'm happy to see the word mature refer to something other than pornography for once.