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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 1641080" data-attributes="member: 9646">For me there are some "poor taste" things in this book that I would have preferred seen not included, like the one above. But on the overall as a DM I do find some usefulness in BoVD. It never crossed my mind that it could be anything else but a DM's tool only, though. It has some ideas and monsters to throw at players, that are interesting to portray the "real" evil in a campaign. I must say that the first time I ever heard of this book, was when angry Dragon Magazines' readers wrote letters to say how scandalous it was to publish such a book. I must say that I was REALLY intrigued. Then, I had the opportunity of buying a copy in perfect condition on ebay for 15$ (I would never had paid more for that book, that I not deemed essential). Well, I did not find what was so scandalous about it...  :\ My main critic is there is too much stat blocks for demons princes and the like, and I do not intend to play munchkin campaigns where you slay demon princes. I think there are too many prestige classes. They require the DM to create scores of specific npcs, and most of the times the PCs don't notice how peculiar the abilities of the villain were. In this regard feats are better, but those of BoVD are most of the time lame IMO. Of course, there is no question I would ever allow a PC take one of these prestige classes. On the othe hand there is some useful ideas such as demonic possessions, vile damage, curses, diseases, and a few monsters and templates.</blockquote>

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