[Poll]Will you buy and use AV's BoEF?

[Aeolius]

I've been fighting the temptation to generalize that those most clearly opposed to "mature gaming" are those like me who have completed 30+ laps around the sun.

I am fast approaching 456 months of age and am not opposed to "mature gaming" (I have and use the BoVD, have a mermaid PC in my game that prefers going topless, and have detailed a Night Hag Family Tree that would make a strumpet blush). I simply have yet to see anyone present an erotic D&D supplement, done in a manner that appeals to me.

 

[Wormwood]

I'm over 30, but my definition of Mature Gaming has nothing to do with erotica.

 

[kenjib]

I'm 26 and I think the book idea is silly, the content not very sophisticated, and the art pretty hokey.

EDIT: I'm referring to the BoEF based on the preview material on the Valar site, which I assume is them putting their best foot forward.

 

[Dr. Harry]

One thing I would like to get a sense of, though, is what the ages are of the people taking various positions in the debate. I've been fighting the temptation to generalize that those most clearly opposed to "mature gaming" are those like me who have completed 30+ laps around the sun.

I am 36, voted "No, No, Smeg No!", and would have spoken up but Fusangite, The Sigil, and Wicht made all the points I wanted to make.

Harry

 

[Aeolius]

Mature Gaming has nothing to do with erotica.

I'll give you that. I'd even settle for Chapters on "Adventuring with Children", "Adopting That Baby Kobold", and "Why Does Blipdoolpoolp Look Nothing Like a Kuo-toa?"

 

[hunter1828]

"Mature" gaming means to me...well, heck...I don't know what it means. I never used the term (still don't very often) until I saw WotC use it in reference to the BoVD.

I've just always gamed. The games have, since the early '80s, included varying degrees of violence, moral quandries and character relationships. I've never had a game that included "erotica"...if by "erotica" one means "descriptive roleplaying of PC or NPC sexual encounters with a regular gaming group." My games have included references to characters sexual preferences (blondes instead of redheads, elves instead of humans), and referneces to past sexual encounters in a simalar way some RL guys talk about those things at a bar, but nothing more than that generally. I don't plan to change, either, just because I plan to introduce elements of the BoEF into my game.

As for "Adventuring with Children", I've run two seperate campaigns ten years apart that included children of a PC and how difficult, dangerous and different it was to have to travel with children.

hunter1828

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Howdy...thought I'd throw in my two cents here. I'm 30, married, three children, like to occasionally watch adult films with the hubby but no way in Hades do I want sex, intimacy, or erotica in my D&D. I wouldn't host or play in a game where it came up. But, hey, neither do I begrudge others their erotic topics. I won't buy the book or use its material, not my schtick.

 

[barsoomcore]

That's pretty much where I am right now, and I'm about the *last* person to turn a nose up at pornography...

Nuh-uh! You finish turning up your nose and I'll STILL be watching!

No wait, I mean...

Friends, especially male friends, do not want to act out sex fantasies together!

You don't live in the West End of Vancouver. Going grocery shopping usually involves passing half-a-dozen male friends preparing to act out sex fantasies together. Heck, I buy my offsale beer at a leather club called (get this) "The PumpJack".

Elf porn.

Elf porn.

Elf porn.

Dictum.

*giggles*

 

[reiella]

Rabid defense of the book usually pushes people away from buying it. When one of the playtesters goes nuts on a messageboard, it sends a bad sign about the book.

Although truth be said, the opposite is true as well.

Which is where I stand now, like I did with the BoVD.

Like it or not, the threads generate alot of publicity for BoEF, which this thread even nicely displayed that it is more well known than a number of other similiar products.

For what it's worth, I do intend to wait till the BoEF is out to make my decision, but from the previews and current information, it looks like well written content that can be potentially used for 'motivations' of different npcs or what not in my game, much like the BoVD.

In some respect, it reminds me alot of what one of the government professors at my university liked to say to his classes on their first day. Politics revolves around three things that are all intertwined: Money, Power, and Sex. And while I like to think my ability to portray villains motivated by the prior two is adequate, I know my ability in the last is lacking, and I know that I lack that for any sort of protagonist beyond the Lancelot stereotype .

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

26, Married, with no kids, and I'm not looking forward to this book, as in I don't have it reserved, but I've read to many fantasy novels (Chronicles from Dragonlance), well more likely read to many novels in general that deal with romance and/or sex. (North and South Trilogy) Most modern classic books and modern classic movies have romantic tendencies and romance often leads to sex.

Yeah this book probably has more sex than romance, but hopefully there will be enough of a romantic angel to make it a worthy buy... The kiss of life spell with a few changes could lead to a very romantic and powerful event in a campaign.