Fantasy Sex Roleplaying Game Releases October 2003

[Arcane Runes Press]

1. Most gamers are heterosexual males.
2. A majority of females would rather look at unclothed women than unclothed men.

Well you're definitely right on point 1.

But in regards to point 2:

Wuh? 0_o

I think your perspective is a bit.... skewed on this one.

Personally, I think if they want the book to be seen as a serious take on sexuality in D&D/fantasy, they'd better have a good male to female artwork ratio.

To do otherwise is to give even more weight to the idea of the book as simply an exercise in pandering.

Patrick Y.

 

[Red Baron]

Sorry... Did you just say "artwork"?!?

 

[Mark]

Today's news has generated a ton of traffic and made EN World very slow. If this keeps up, this site is gonna go down like a Valar Prestige Class...

 

[Mystic Eye]

Here's a thought to throw out amongst the wolves...

Would you rather have seen Avalanche with their track record of racy covers do a book like this or have someone like Anthony who is likely to approach the subject in a mature and adult manner?

I'm intrigued by the idea myself. I've long thought that the genre needed a good shot in the arm to offer folks who would like a more mature setting something more. Until the final product comes out, no one will really know whether it is cheescake or something better. Just sit back and wait...

At the risk of getting mauled by the masses I was privy to some of the material that Anthony had and all I can say is it was all very tastefull and it is a real project.

 

[trancejeremy]

I don't have it, but Mongoose released a book as a PDF that had sex as the subject. Nymphology.

Anyway, this doesn't seem to be about sex, but fetish sex, which much like furries, is something I have zero interest in.

I remember a story in an early issue of Dragon, (before the fiction policy was changed to be non-dungeon crawl related), that had an elf reading a copy of PlayElf. That I wouldn't mind. This however seems to be something like "Bondage Elf Babes".

I'm sure there's a market for it, much like I'm sure there would be a market for a Whoopi Goldberg-Bea Arthur XXX lesbian video, but it's not something I have an interest in.

 

[Arnwyn]

Well, I feel kind of silly now. I was just thinking back to that bit of foreshadowing we all had in that one thread, where A.V. asked if we'd be interested in seeing more "mature" books, maybe even a spin-off label, and would we defend it. I said "sure", why not. I liked stuff in the BoVD and find it useful (posession rules? Yeah. Sacrifice rules? Sure. Demon lords detailed? Uh-huh).

But it wasn't supposed to be this way! I guess it goes back to one of The Sigil's original posts in this thread - what is the definition of "mature"?

What irks me though is that someone sees a use in this book. I've been waiting for how long to get a book on kingdom-management/building, economics, and fully detailed player character merchant rules, and *this* is what comes out? For the love of pete, you'd think that more gamers out there would find a D&D economics and rulership book a hundred times more useful than a D&D sex book. And if more people find the reverse true, then I will truly detach myself from the D&D community (more than I already have).

Sheesh.

 

[Bendris Noulg]

At the risk of getting mauled by the masses I was privy to some of the material that Anthony had and all I can say is it was all very tastefull and it is a real project.

Glad to hear it!

I'd certainly like to have AV show up to comment, regardless, as too often the assumption of tastelessness is tossed about.

 

[Ghostwind]

Says the man who already authored a pdf with photoshopped art. (It wasn't racy models though, just norse god images, and I remember you saying you had no control over the art in there).

Egyptian Gods was a bit more risque but did use the same the Photoshop techniques.

 

[BiggusGeekus@Work]

For the love of pete, you'd think that more gamers out there would find a D&D economics and rulership book a hundred times more useful than a D&D sex book.

Heh.

[ tangent ]

Anyhoo, check out A Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe Review link here: http://www.enworld.org/reviews/index.php?sub=yes&where=active&reviewer=Simon+Collins&product=AMMSWE

[ /tangent ]

 

[Farganger]

What irks me though is that someone sees a use in this book. I've been waiting for how long to get a book on kingdom-management/building, economics, and fully detailed player character merchant rules, and *this* is what comes out? For the love of pete, you'd think that more gamers out there would find a D&D economics and rulership book a hundred times more useful than a D&D sex book. And if more people find the reverse true, then I will truly detach myself from the D&D community (more than I already have).

Sheesh.

Interesting! The "fully detailed player character merchant rules" just leapt out at me.

Having spent a good bit of my life in "business" - I must say that the publication being discussed in this thread, for all its potential flaws, at the very least promises more interesting diversion than assuming the role of a banker or carpet merchant.

It's all relative, of course, but for now I'll withhold judgment.