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<blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 835744" data-attributes="member: 1645">What &quot;vile&quot; material do most people object to?Given how much cruelty we can find in history -- particularly the history that makes for good adventure stories -- I think it's only natural to present some examples for use in people's campaigns: inhabitants of cities that resist invasion put to the sword, cowards with wounds on their backs impaled upon pikes, criminals heads left to rot and have their eyes pecked out by birds above the castle gate, etc.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the Book of Vile Darkness doesn't really cover that kind of material.Given what a huge role evil sacrifices and demonic possession play in swords &amp; sorcery fiction, I think it's only natural to cover that material too -- and the Book of Vile Darkness does cover occult evil.What I don't really understand is the fascination with silly evil.&nbsp; Nipple clamps with magical powers?&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Riiiiggghhht.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmadsen, post: 835744, member: 1645"] What "vile" material do most people object to? Given how much cruelty we can find in history -- particularly the history that makes for good adventure stories -- I think it's only natural to present some examples for use in people's campaigns: inhabitants of cities that resist invasion put to the sword, cowards with wounds on their backs impaled upon pikes, criminals heads left to rot and have their eyes pecked out by birds above the castle gate, etc. Unfortunately, the Book of Vile Darkness doesn't really cover that kind of material. Given what a huge role evil sacrifices and demonic possession play in swords & sorcery fiction, I think it's only natural to cover that material too -- and the Book of Vile Darkness does cover occult evil. What I don't really understand is the fascination with silly evil. Nipple clamps with magical powers? :rolleyes: Riiiiggghhht. [/QUOTE]

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