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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fred Delles" data-source="post: 421798" data-attributes="member: 3497">We've been having this massive argument over Avalanche Press's recent actions and one of the points some of the "boycotters" mentioned is the scantily-clad women on the covers of the D20 games that Avalanche greatly expresses. Which, by the way, has NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER to the game, much less the historical era, itself.My point is, does sex sell RPGs? Does it do a great job in covering up what would otherwise be a bad product? Not that Avalanche Press is bad in its content per se (it's all your opinion), but I end up lowering my standard on what they put in the book and probably giving a slightly lower review for something that is fairly good. If something is somewhere between a 3 and a 4 (of 5), if the cover has an unrelated, near-naked woman, I'd give it a 3 instead of a hopeful 4. A lot of recent covers for RPGs (video game, pencil-and-paper, or tabletop) don't try anything so tawdry.Will a scantily-clad drow priestess in a suggestive pose, expressing herself fully right in front of some background, with NO CONNECTION to the game itself, make you buy a third-party version of "City of the Spider Queen" or the like? A well-armored, but still decent-looking, woman would do better, but it would look best if the cover gave a general feel of the place.I'm guessing it isn't, and would offend some of the women gamers and would-be women gamers. In addition, there are people who would lower their standards after just seeing the cover (art's bad, so the content's bad; or, it NEEDS a near-naked chick to sell, to the content is bad). And Joe Average, even if he began D&D, would just grab some magazine for half price instead. Those companies would be shooting themselves in the foot, especially during a time when many, many RPG makers are hurting because of both the economy and the d20 glut.I have my Playboys, Maxims, Penthouses, and Heavy Metals. To put unrelated, scantily-clad women on the covers of some would be redundant at best and ridiculous at worst.</blockquote>

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