Book of Vile Darkness

[Psion]

I'll get it. Why? Because heroes need contemptable villains. It's a fantasy tradition!

Is it possible that the book will step over the bounds of good taste? Certainly. But we'll have that flame war when it comes to it.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

I think people who are criticizing the book (without it being released yet) must be unfamiliar with Monte Cook's work. I very much doubt that Monte would ever write the masturbatory human sacrifice instruction manual people seem to be afraid BoVD will be. Matter of fact, I'm certain it will be far less "adult" than some of the most hysterical speculations seem to indicate it will be.

 

[Lady Dragon]

Exactly Psion why is every one fighting over a book that we have one paragraph of promo material on? When the book comes out then we can fight over it.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Exactly Psion why is every one fighting over a book that we have one paragraph of promo material on?

Sssh! They are pretty funny to read.

FD

 

[Scott814thmpco]

Howdy-
Question to all the great EN world sages; will BoVD be like Relics and Rituals I & II? I have both those books and they are very mature in their content. And I really dont want to go out and buy something I already have.



Scott

 

[Dr Midnight]

Whey do people say idiotic stuff like, "Monte has a unhealthy facination with this material..."?

Nice.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Howdy-
Question to all the great EN world sages; will BoVD be like Relics and Rituals I & II? I have both those books and they are very mature in their content. And I really dont want to go out and buy something I already have.

I can't recall thinking R&R 1 was "mature", but the first book was mostly a spell book with some PrC's and magic items.

The BoVD is supposed to be a DMG-like book about running villians. It will most likely have PrC's, items, and spells- but a lot of it will be suggestions on running evil in a campeign.

FD

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Howdy-
Question to all the great EN world sages; will BoVD be like Relics and Rituals I & II? I have both those books and they are very mature in their content. And I really dont want to go out and buy something I already have.



Scott

I don't think there's any way to tell; the book won't be out until October. My opinion is this: first, that it won't be like either R&R, and, simply because Monte wrote it by himself, it'll be, at the very least, a much more focused work.

 

[Psion]

It will most likely have PrC's, items, and spells- but a lot of it will be suggestions on running evil in a campeign.

Actually, IIRC Monte has said that they don't spend a whole lot of time on that topic.

 

[Wolfen Priest]

Would his parents really care if this book was published by WotC or some other d20 publisher? I think all they would care about would be the fact that it was a D&D book (because that would probably be the extent of their understanding of the entire OGL/D20 business).

I think that it may actually be better if WotC DOES publish a book of this kind first, so they can set a (hopefully tasteful) precedent for the rest of the industry to follow concerning the description of such evils.

Yes, actually. If WotC is publishing it, you can be sure it's going to be displayed at your nearest local Barnes & Noble bookstore, (or Waldenbooks or whatever). If it just said "d20" on the cover, most mom's wouldn't understand what it was for.

And for those who simply don't give a rat's you-know-what about the next generation of players, do you ever think about what will happen to our little hobby if people stop playing it? I for one don't want to see it taken over by CRPG's. Flexor, how old were you when you started playing D&D? I was 12; my parents had to buy me the books. If it starts to scare away soccer moms with fears of satanism and dark rituals, guess what? The hobby will lose gamers, period. Or else the people who take it up will become even more distanced from 'mainstream' society.