Eldritch Wizardry and nude women! D&D history help, please.

[Desdichado]

Well, sure, they were less uptight then they had been previously, but not moreso than now.

 

[rogueattorney]

TSR's 1976 Eldritch Wizardry D&D supplement featured a cover painting of a nude woman tied to a sacrificial altar.

Did this stir up much controversy at the time? Did TSR eventually pull the product from the shelves?

I've heard about this product, but I don't recall hearing about what fallout, if any, this product caused at the time.

Memory banks busting at the seems here...

In 1976, I think D&D was still too much of a underground thing among hobbyists for the EW cover to register on the booby patrol's radar. The first I remember anyone complaining about was in the 1980's when it had already been out of print for some time.

The nudity in some early D&D art always seened like an "oh, by the way" to those whe were anti-D&D. They were primarily concerned with the "black magic" and "devil worship". I always thought they just would slip a reference in regarding nudity to enflame those who thought the whole magic thing was bunk but still might be concerned if their teenage son was looking at drawings of nekkid chicks.

R.A.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Well, sure, they were less uptight then they had been previously, but not moreso than now.

70s how I remember them...it was a very good time for me...

 

[Hand of Evil]

Oh, just that we know what the cover looked like...nothing to see here!

 

[ironmani]

Oh, just that we know what the cover looked like...nothing to see here!

Bah...seen worse in Sports Illustrated.
"Look, she's toppless!"
"Ahh...but the suits painted on so its ok."
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[Sir Elton]

Wow! She's like . . . getting major Vitamin D production going on there! And other chemicals created by solar exposure! It's like, she's getting a Tan and she's building a resistance to Osteoporosis and Multiple Schlerosis!

It's a chick sunbathing in her natural State! So utterly non-sexual. Who can look at that and say it's wrong?

 

[BOZ]

Oh, just that we know what the cover looked like...nothing to see here!

yeah, but... young boys could use their imagination to figure out the rest! therefore it is teh eeeevil!

 

[Aeric]

Oh, just that we know what the cover looked like...nothing to see here!

It's the medieval version of a tanning booth!

I don't really see the sacrifice element in this painting. The only harm this lass is going to come to is a crick in the neck and possibly a pulled thigh muscle in her left leg. And an uneven tan. Oh, the humanity!

 

[Remathilis]

Oh, just that we know what the cover looked like...nothing to see here!

Quick, Eric's Grandma is coming. hide it under your bed!

 

[Sir Elton]

Quick, Eric's Grandma is coming. hide it under your bed!

Why hide something so pure? If she's disgusted by it, then it's conditioning.