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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hellbender" data-source="post: 369668" data-attributes="member: 795">Good question. (Here comes my opinion I was going to keep to myself)Well, I honestly see it as bad because it will come under attack, if not on a large scale, then on a smaller scale. It is hard enough to get players as one gets older, and I can see this book being decried in churches and on websites. I don't really see any large war on DnD, but many small skirmishes. Any negative reflection upon our hobby loses players, which is more dangerous in the long run than anything else. I thought the game was about encouraging people to play, and although I like Monte Cook's work, I just hope the book is more tasteful than his article on evil in Dragon #300.     As to the material itself, it is up to the DM, I can agree with that, I don't want censorship, but I wonder why the need for a book like this in the first place. If you want to go darker and viler that is fine, but isn't it possibly to come up with these rules on your own as a DM? I personally find rape offensive and not a necessity in any role playing game, and I am glad I don't have players that find it an aspect of roleplaying, but I do understand that is the group and myself, and I respect other DM's interest in the material. The gross out stuff is not particularly out there to me, but I can see where many people would be (and will be) offended by this material.    Am I passing judgement on a  book I haven't seen? Well, I did read the article by Cook in the current issue of Dragon regarding evil and if the author's extrapolation on evil is any indicator of the contents of the book, I think I am working on an educated guess here.hellbender</blockquote>

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