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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4151476" data-attributes="member: 13892">This was the biggest issue for me and the issue that led to some unflatterring comparisons to FATAL and Promised Sands on my part. The oft repeated claims of being a serious text were completely undermined by the inclusion of much puerile humor. It's kind of hard to take a game seriously when it is filled with intentionally crude sexual humor (e.g., Command 'Masturbate') and&nbsp; indulges heavily in anachronism for humor content (e.g., Gnomish Kama Sutra). Both FATAL and Promised Sands had this same thing going on (to be fair, FATAL had several other far worse issues, as well, but it shared this in common with TBoEF). Promised Sands notably had its Semen-blooded Rape Ogres (I wish that I were kidding) and FATAL had everything from a Command Word &quot;Orgasm&quot; to Force Fart spells. And both games declared themselves to be &quot;serious&quot; fantasy works. Neither were. There was a bunch of stuff in TBoEF which the editor should have red-lined out of existence early on if the editor wanted serious people to take The Book of Erotic Fantasy seriously (or avoid unflattering comparisons to FATAL and Promised Sands).&nbsp; I can forgive all of the book's other failings but the puposeful inclusion of utterly rediculous content coupled with the overt claims of intellectualism still make me want to wretch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 4151476, member: 13892"] This was the biggest issue for me and the issue that led to some unflatterring comparisons to FATAL and Promised Sands on my part. The oft repeated claims of being a serious text were completely undermined by the inclusion of much puerile humor. It's kind of hard to take a game seriously when it is filled with intentionally crude sexual humor (e.g., Command 'Masturbate') and indulges heavily in anachronism for humor content (e.g., Gnomish Kama Sutra). Both FATAL and Promised Sands had this same thing going on (to be fair, FATAL had several other far worse issues, as well, but it shared this in common with TBoEF). Promised Sands notably had its Semen-blooded Rape Ogres (I wish that I were kidding) and FATAL had everything from a Command Word "Orgasm" to Force Fart spells. And both games declared themselves to be "serious" fantasy works. Neither were. There was a bunch of stuff in TBoEF which the editor should have red-lined out of existence early on if the editor wanted serious people to take The Book of Erotic Fantasy seriously (or avoid unflattering comparisons to FATAL and Promised Sands). I can forgive all of the book's other failings but the puposeful inclusion of [i]utterly rediculous[/i] content coupled with the overt claims of intellectualism still make me want to wretch. [/QUOTE]

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