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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Katowice" data-source="post: 844288" data-attributes="member: 956">I probably wouldn't buy such material, just because I have kids and I like to keep my D&D stuff on my bookshelf, not locked in a footlocker under a hidden compartment in my sub-basement.  The most mature RPG book I have is possible "Call of Cthulhu d20" (which discusses insanity, dysfunctions, cults, etc.).  I found BOVD pretty useless, though I did like the updating of the arch-fiends.  That wasn't enough to make me buy it, however.  That said, a Vertigo-style series of D&D books might interesting.  I thought BOVD was definitely more on the extreme end of what I saw in Vertigo comics (Preacher, Hellblazer).  Just don't make anything like the Book of Nymphology <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> BTW, the 1E D&D books could probably have been called "mature" as far as the artwork is concerned, especially such boobie-laden books as Monster Manual and Dieties & Demigods.Another poster was right about the nudity vs. violence issue:  I've spent some time in Europe and noticed that they are not too concerned with nudity (topless sunbathing at a German public pool), but don't seem to like violence & gore as much (Italian zombie movies aside).</blockquote>