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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Humanophile" data-source="post: 247825" data-attributes="member: 1049">Nathanael, thankfully your worries are pretty much groundless.  While there's still a lot of residual anti-D&D sentiment around, it's usually someone who remembers "weren't there a bunch of kids who killed themselves over it back in the 80's?", and just haven't seen any proof to counter that.  So these people come in two camps; the (somewhat) reasonable ones who have had no exposure to D&D to counteract the hype, and the unreasonable ones who are still sticking to secondhand accounts of what's in 1e books.  The first type, if they do stumble across D&D books, will be far more likely to find one of the basic ones and realize that D&D is nothing to worry about, while I see no reason for the second type to actually go as far as to read these books they condemn.Plus, I hope that your FLGS will put the BOVD on a higher or lower shelf, away from the curious eyes of first time gamers, while the core books occupy the obvious spaces.  Remember, us fans may know what WOTC brings out and salivate over every leaked morsel, but your average plebe on the streets just vaguely knows that D&D is out there, and maybe some of them might remember the cartoon or the opening sequence to E.T.  Think the last time you were at a bookstore.  If there was a series of romance novels that included detailed descriptions of how to summon Satan, Cthulhu, and any other big, world-ending nasty you can think of, how likely would you be to notice them?  That's about the same odds as your average non-gamer would have to notice the BOVD, so I don't think we'll draw enough attention to have the bad publicity.</blockquote>

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