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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anthony Valterra" data-source="post: 838035" data-attributes="member: 11535">Folks,Please note I am posting from home so although I can never shed my WotC link please keep in mind that this is me as a private person not me as a WotC person.I find this thread interesting. Bit of history - when the Book of Vile Darkness arrived I read it and said, "nice rules set, now where's the vileness?" Needless to say alot of people looked at me a bit crosseyed after that. "Vile" and "Mature" are very much in the eyes of the beholder (so are disintegration rays but that's a different topic). WotC, as most of you have surmised, is going to put out about one product per year in the arena of more mature material. I don't think we will do more then that and there are certain realms that we just won't touch. In addition, the level of "vileness" or maturity (however you want to quantify it) will never get beyond what you saw in BoVD.So here's the question. DC created Vertigo to handle comics that were too mature for its standard line. What if a d20 company arose with solid game designers and top notch people that focused on a mature gaming line. Now when I say mature I don't mean salacious - I mean mature - like Vertigo. Sort of a medeival Hellblazer if you like. A) Do you think there would be an audience?B) Would you buy it?C) If you supported such a line would you also evangelize it (let people know that it was out there and that it was cool)?D) Would you defend it (there will be people who will proclaim the death of gaming if such a line were to come into existence)?E) And finally, would you participate (post ideas, drawings, stories, etc. on a website, network with other players, help develop codes of conduct and ethics for play etc. )?Anthony Valterra</blockquote>

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