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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5452798" data-attributes="member: 22424">First up, I have to be honest and say there is roughly a 0% chance of me buying this book, regardless of content.However, I really hope they don't go down the same line as the 3e BoVD. Basically, I felt that that one tried too hard to be 'mature' and 'edgy', and came across as something a teenager might have come up with - going for gore and shock in place of actual adult content.I would much rather they went for a genuinely more mature approach, taking a real, serious look at genuine evil (as opposed to the four-colour Eeeeevil we tend to get in D&D). So, sure, address drugs, and evil cults, and demon worship, and slavery and... but look at the real motivations for these things, look at genuine corruption, the peril of good intentions without good actions, pride going before a fall, the ends justifying the means, or even "it's for the greater good" (while sacrificing the lesser good). And so on.Buckets of blood, and torture porn, and boobs, and swearing may get you an NC-17 rating, but by themselves they don't actually make you mature.</blockquote>