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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 380626" data-attributes="member: 2182"><p>Everyone, the thread isn't here to discuss the morality of "vile darkness" in games.  Rather I'm getting a little fed up with the hype the book has generated.  I'm willing to bet, this is just what Wizards wants.  Let's face it, controversy sells.  Remember Mortal Kombat and Night Trap.  Those video games became best sellers after congress complained about them.  In the same way, Wizards is hyping BoVD to generate controversy to increase its sales. (After all, D&D sold best in the 80's when it was viewed as a tool of the Devil.)  Everyone knows that several people have spoken out against the book before its release, including a well known former D&D author.  What could possibly be better marketing?  Monte assured us that prostitution and rape wouldn't be mentioned in the book, but Wizards catalogue mentions that it will discuss such issues and talks about creating "intense campaigns".  Either Wizards edited the final manuscript to include such things, or more likely they simply wrote the description in the catalogue to generate controvery, regardless of the actual contents of the book.  Dragon 300 is another way of shamelessly hyping the book.  The sealed section was a surefire way of giving the impression of a sneak peak of  some of the "vile content" that will appear in the BoVD (Even though Monte didn't write the sealed section.)</p></blockquote><p></p>