Fantasy Sex Roleplaying Game Releases October 2003

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Bran Blackbyrd said:
Besides, this book couldn't possibly be a bigger embarrassment to the RPG community than LARPing is.

So let me get the ranking straight for things embarrassing to the RPG community (from least to most):
  • 3} LARPing
  • 2} This book
  • 1} Knee-Jerk Reaction to Undefined New Things?

Have I missed anything? Seems like a list of things embarrassing to the RPG Community should be a few pages long, yes? Can we just list all of our names and be done with it?
 

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pennywiz said:


So let me get the ranking straight for things embarrassing to the RPG community (from least to most):
  • 3} LARPing
  • 2} This book
  • 1} Knee-Jerk Reaction to Undefined New Things?

Have I missed anything? Seems like a list of things embarrassing to the RPG Community should be a few pages long, yes? Can we just list all of our names and be done with it?

Actually you forgot Vin Diesel, he's probably up there with LARPing.
 

Its an interesting read this thread, mostly to see peoples opinions from their own cultures which are very different to mine. They do seem to cling rather strongly to them, which is their perogative I guess even if if does worry me to see a lot of closed minds and judgement passed from people who havent even seen the book.

Somehow I can see it all flowing down the river of literature and barely making a ripple on the lives of most roleplayers hobby, its just another book and probably not that accessable or useful to most people. Maybe some weirdo christian from america, that big land over the sea will pick it up and see it as a product of sick minds poisoned by satan and brand the hobbiest's as a whole as being goat raping minions of the dark one.
Then again, maybe they wont :)
And the opinions of weirdo christians 15000km away really dont concearn me either, most of them get televised over here at 4am on free to air TV telling me to send them money and I think its kinda funny, in a disturbing way.
(its also another reason to get satelite tv here...)
However if someone was to pick up the book, tuck it under their arm while spraying down a McDonalds with a machinegun the publicity could be wonderful. Though, bats#:):):) crazy madman rarely get motivated by erotic literature, so maybe its unlikely as much as my country being invaded by rabid christians who put me in a camp after tatoo'ing BROKEN on my forehead just so good wholesome folks know Im a roleplayer and it gives the deathsquad something to aim at.

There, that should give the doomsayers and paranoid among us something to think about :D :D :D

As a side note, someone out there who runs one of these indi-publishing companies, write us something I could all use.
A nice big book full of all kinds of Orky badness
Damn sick of books on sharp knives, telling me how to be evil and f#!#ing elves of every colour and subspecies!
 

Edmonton boy said:
The real question is: how long before this hits slashdot, and then how long before a mainstream new source picks it up?

I really don't think they'll be interested. If you're right about the intent of the news release (and i suspect you are), then they'll have already sent it to these places. It won't need slashdot.

DnD is pretty far off the media's radar these days. Everyone said 'The BoVD is goign to kill the hobby... the schools will be burning the books!!!' and it enver happened. Like one more S&M porn book is going to make a difference.
 

BiggusGeekus said:


I have vivid recollections of being a pre-teen and reading Split Infinity. That man scarred me.

Add me to the list of "had her emotional development towards sex fundementally disrupted by pubescent reading of Peirs Anthony". (almost 30 and all better now, but my kids aren't laying a hand on that author without advance crib sheets on healthy sex)

Kahuna Burger
 

  • Noone outside the gaming community will care about this book.
  • People don't care about D&D.
  • There will be no new witch-hunts because of this book.
  • The general public will not shift their perception of D&D because of this book.
  • Even if they did, it would just improve sales.
  • I said the above in the BoVD times and I was right.
  • I'm saying it again and I will be right again.
 

Olive said:
DnD is pretty far off the media's radar these days. Everyone said 'The BoVD is goign to kill the hobby... the schools will be burning the books!!!' and it enver happened. Like one more S&M porn book is going to make a difference.

lol, I imagine that if any mainstream stores were to carry this book, they'd just see "erotic fantasy" in the title and stick in the section with all the Fabio-embossed covers.

Hey, maybe that's actually the way to get more women into this hobby.
 
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There are shows on TV just for kids, there are shows for the entire family, and there are shows just for adults. For your premise to have merit, you would have to presume that there is no room for a strictly adult audience. Just happy meal fantasy.
You're twisting and turning desperately there. That point was in reference to your assertion that I'm closeminded for attacking something based on it's promised themes, so I presented an example of where your assertion is clearly false. Now you're trying to pretend I was arguing something else; no luck there, try again.
I responded to your open-ended question "is sword & sorcery fantasy without these [lurid] elements bland?" And rather than try to mount a defense, you want to act like you were specifically discussing something else.
Maybe because I was? The context of only mentioning other modules might have given you a hint.

Which is more likely to "advance" the foundation of D&D - modules and setting material....or novels? The novels are at best an abstraction of the game, as peripheral as D&D computer games are.
Your debating technique appears to as follows: instead of providing any kind of substantial rebuttal, adopt a haughty attitude and keep throwing around the words "hot air" and "ignorance".
Yeah, that's all that's needed to refute your namecalling and counterattacks on someone who you're so informed about that you don't even know what gender they are.

Anyways, you seem to have this obsession with McDonalds references of your own.
If that fails to advance your position, become increasingly more hostile and resort to petty personal attacks while at the same time condemning the other side for displaying bad form. Repeat and rinse.
I see a pattern here; you've changed tack from your attacks on Hickman to attacks on me. Why attacks? Because you don't have a decent defense, it's the only resort you have left.
 
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Rounser, can you tell me why D&D should cater only to PG-13 audiences? Most studios offer movies for different audiences. TV stations cater to different age categories with different programs. I fail to see why D&D should cater only to PG-13 gamers, and not offer other gamers what they want.

Why is it bad to offer some adult people material for their campaigns? How does it hurt your game? My game is not hurt by any other game, even if that game was just a racist slaughterfest where sick minds live out their genocide dreams.

Edit: Oh, yeah, I hate DL with a passion, mainly due to kenders and tinker gnomes. Tracy and Margareth have much to answer for for giving birth to those abominations, imho the very essence of puerile behaviour.
 
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