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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreadPirateMurphy" data-source="post: 4699383" data-attributes="member: 20715">Any topic is "mature" if it makes people uncomfortable.  Standards are going to vary significantly.  Nudity, alcohol, and violence are examples of topics that trigger very different reactions in different parts of the world.The risk that a company takes when it publishes mature content is that it will trigger an outcry, which is rarely profitable and often requires the company to jump through hoops.  WotC is owned by a TOY company, so is it any surprise that their books on good and evil are cartoony?  It has to be, lest the company be accused of promoting anything controversial.  It doesn't matter that there is a sizeable S&M community in the world -- in D&D, pain is something used by the bad guys.I voted, "Maybe, if it were well written," but quite frankly, it would have to be fairly innovative to be worth paying money for it.  Applying sex or gore to otherwise mundane gaming tropes doesn't qualify.</blockquote>