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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6297909" data-attributes="member: 11697">I'm not sure that I'd call some of the earliest stuff "adult oriented". With all due respect to the game's origins, it's often 'juvenile faux-adult' mixed with 'titillate teenage boys'. It found a market and it worked it well, but let's not call it mature themed. The demons and devils at the time were things to beat up and steal their stuff, not godless abominations capable of actually disturbing players. IMO it wasn't the actual content of the game at the time that seemed to dredge up popular, misguided attention to D&D, it was just the cultural baggage associated with the words demon and devil.The mid/late 2e material on the fiends was IMO incredibly darker and more adult oriented than anything in 1e, with 3e and onwards building on that (varying by author in how successful it did so).</blockquote>