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<blockquote data-quote="Skarp Hedin" data-source="post: 165811" data-attributes="member: 1540">Arcady said:&nbsp;I believe, somewhere in this thread perhaps, that Monte stated that he had written the majority of this book before AEG released Evil.&nbsp; Also, some people (who may or may not know what they're talking about, but I think this makes sense) stated that WotC has a long lead-time between project conception and final release.&nbsp; So if the BoVD was mostly written before Evil and all that.. would we then want WotC to chuck all Monte's work (without paying him, presumably) and thus lose money on a product which will certainly sell?&nbsp; Sure, perhaps because of Evil and Demonology and etc.. maybe it won't sell as well as it would have had these products never been produced, but I imagine it'll be profitable.Also, what's &quot;need&quot; got to do with anything? We don't -need- Ford to exist, since we have Chevrolet, etc. I don't mean to seem cynical or unpleasant here... but no one needs any of this stuff, anyhow.&nbsp; All these products (the majority anyhow) are produced because someone thinks they'll make 'em some money, so &quot;need&quot; is defined by &quot;what the market will bear&quot;.&nbsp; So if the Book of Vile Darkness turns a profit, then clearly it was a &quot;necessary&quot; product.Arcady, you cad, you went and edited whilst I was dusting off the rapier-like wit 'n stuff.As for originality, isn't this the first time WotC (or really, even TSR) has produced a product of this nature?&nbsp; I can't think of any others offhand, at least, nothing that's particularly in-depth and etc.Oh, and uh.. the uh, tumormancers (hee hee, I wanna be a tumormancer, I'll fortell the future by biopsy).. yeah, anyhow, those goons could traffic in slaves, to sacrifice to the Bad People.&nbsp; I think Monte mentions somewhere that the prostitution crap was invented by the catalog copy-writers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Skarp Hedin, post: 165811, member: 1540"] Arcady said: I believe, somewhere in this thread perhaps, that Monte stated that he had written the majority of this book before AEG released Evil. Also, some people (who may or may not know what they're talking about, but I think this makes sense) stated that WotC has a long lead-time between project conception and final release. So if the BoVD was mostly written before Evil and all that.. would we then want WotC to chuck all Monte's work (without paying him, presumably) and thus lose money on a product which will certainly sell? Sure, perhaps because of Evil and Demonology and etc.. maybe it won't sell as well as it would have had these products never been produced, but I imagine it'll be profitable. Also, what's "need" got to do with anything? We don't -need- Ford to exist, since we have Chevrolet, etc. I don't mean to seem cynical or unpleasant here... but no one needs any of this stuff, anyhow. All these products (the majority anyhow) are produced because someone thinks they'll make 'em some money, so "need" is defined by "what the market will bear". So if the Book of Vile Darkness turns a profit, then clearly it was a "necessary" product. Arcady, you cad, you went and edited whilst I was dusting off the rapier-like wit 'n stuff. As for originality, isn't this the first time WotC (or really, even TSR) has produced a product of this nature? I can't think of any others offhand, at least, nothing that's particularly in-depth and etc. Oh, and uh.. the uh, tumormancers (hee hee, I wanna be a tumormancer, I'll fortell the future by biopsy).. yeah, anyhow, those goons could traffic in slaves, to sacrifice to the Bad People. I think Monte mentions somewhere that the prostitution crap was invented by the catalog copy-writers. [/QUOTE]

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