D&D 4E Book of Vile Darkness: What do you want in it?

[The Little Raven]

Who would you choose?

Ari Marmell, Brian R. James, and John Rodgers would be top choices for me.

 

[Knightfall]

Ari Marmell, Brian R. James, and John Rodgers would be top choices for me.

I'm a big fan of Ari's writing; he'd write a kick-ass BoVD. ([MENTION=1288]Mouseferatu[/MENTION])

I don't know why but one of the first people that came to mind was Robin D. Laws.

 

[Nahat Anoj]

I'd like it to be a fluffy coffee table book like The Book of Nod for Vampire: the Masquerade or Days of Fire for Demon: the Fallen that reveals a lot of evil secrets about the D&D world. I guess a combined fluff book with a does of crunch like the Dictionary of Mu for Sorcerer would be okay, too.

 

[Knightfall]

FYI... I've added a BoVD thread link to WotC's forum on the first post.

On that thread, it is mentioned that the DDI Vecna article states that Vecna wrote the BoVD...

On topic, I believe that the fluff in the recent Vecna article mentioned that the Book of Vile Darkness was written by Vecna himself, and filled with all manner of the darkest information that he could find: deals with demons and devils, necromancy, the powers of the malignant stars, and ways to breach the boundaries of the world. So if they do it right, it will be exactly the sort of book I could get behind.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hmm, it seems that the 3e BoVD isn't beloved by all. Heh.

I actually will keep the BoVD when I purge most of my 3E books (probably to use them as supplements for C&C henceforth), as it's got some stuff in it that I think is worth keeping, such as some of the monsters, the alternate evil human origin story and some other elements. It's better than it's counterpart book, for instance.

I just think a lot of it comes off prudish, but given how people freaked out about the Book of Erotic Fantasy, I guess that's not too surprising.

 

[The Human Target]

While I agree the 3E version was fairly silly and bondage-y, I think blood and boobs and torture are needed in something called the Book of Vile Darkness.

I don't expect to get that in this release though.

 

[Knightfall]

Kostchtchie, Pazuzu, Zuggtmoy

Sub Demon: manes

FYI...

Kostchtchie, Pazuzu, and Zuggtmoy are in the 4e Demonomicon as is a Mane minion.

 

[The Little Raven]

I'd like it to be a fluffy coffee table book like The Book of Nod for Vampire: the Masquerade or Days of Fire for Demon: the Fallen that reveals a lot of evil secrets about the D&D world. I guess a combined fluff book with a does of crunch like the Dictionary of Mu for Sorcerer would be okay, too.

The Book of Nod (and the later Erciyes Fragment) are the only V:tM books I own anymore. I'd love to see something like that for the BoVD, and maybe even a Lament for Lost Tharizdun or something like that.

 

[Shroomy]

I liked the Kythons; I hope they make a reappearance.

 

[Knightfall]

3e BoVD Vile Gods

Karaan
Rallaster
The Patient One
Scahrossar
The Xammux
Yeathan

Of these, I'd be interested in having Karaan and Yeathan updated.