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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 247620" data-attributes="member: 2182">IMO The BoVD is Wizards' new marketing strategy for D&D.  Let's face it, as much as we like D&D, D&D really isn't that big of a money-maker compared to the "card crack" games like Magic: the Gathering and Pokemon.  Hasbro, who owns Wizards has been demanding an increasingly large profit from them.  In spite of D&D's profit, it just hasn't done well enough to please Hasbro. (Anyone remember Monte's last rant.)This is where BoVD comes in.  I suspect the purpose of this book (From Wizard's perspective) is twofold.  The first purpose is to generate some controversy.  D&D owes a lot of its popularity to the controversy back in the 80's.  Even if the actual content of the book isn't all that bad, I doubt that it would really matter. (Do you really think that Jack Chick or Pat Pulling actually "read" the Player's Handbook?)  The back cover burb is all that they need to complain about it.  Wizards is trying to generate some controversy to "advertise" D&D.Second, I suspect, that Wizards is trying to atract the White Wolf crowd.  As much as I hate to say it, D&D has lost a lot of players to White Wolf (Alas!).  To many White Wolf players see D&D as a childish Hack n' Slash filled romp.  With many of the White Wolf players (and other darker game systems, too) dark is in.  The darker the better.  Releasing an "edgy" and dark source book might be Wizards way of appealing to this crowd.</blockquote>

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