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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3984837" data-attributes="member: 704">Ok, I think I am still doing a poor job of making my point.  Let me make one more, probably absurd generalization.First part of the point I have been trying to make:In the long term, if Wizards of the Coast fails to attract new gamers to D&D, the current customer base will eventually die off.  People who are born after the original customer base will eventually replace them.  I am pretty sure that at one point, they will be children.Second part of the point I am trying to make:Content such as that found in the Book of Erotic Fantasy, and to borrow a term from Clockwork Orange, 'Ultra Violence',  is not what makes D&D an appealing past time.  Both forms of content can actually be quite entertaining, but they are not exactly exclusive to D&D.  Furthermore, such content is often more effectively delivered through other mediums.  I know that I did not start playing D&D simply to get access to that kind of content.  I presume that most of the current customer base of D&D got into the hobby for reasons similar to mine, a general enjoyment of fantasy fiction.The point:Getting people into D&D while they are young is not in a bad idea.  I am not talking about accomodating 1% of a potential new player pool while alienating 90% of the current player pool.  What I am talking about is taking steps to make sure you do not alienate 1% of a new player base by letting a 3rd party produce content that would harm the brand image.  It may not seem like much, but I am sure there are a number of people on this board who may have had friends that had parents who were overprotective of this sort of thing.If some nutjob out there decides to score points on D&D again by declaring it evil, I would rather not give them ammunition like the Book of Erotic Fantasy when that book does not even really add much to the game for most players.Anyway, thats enough on this particular point for me.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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