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<blockquote data-quote="GentleGiant" data-source="post: 4142883" data-attributes="member: 11829">Who marketed it to pre-teens and teens? The bookstore? Nothing on the book itself proclaims this.RPGs and D&amp;D are wide ranging products, some appeal to &quot;kill the monsters and loot the treasure, then onwards to the next dungeon&quot; players and some appeal to &quot;you have now successfully infiltrated the King's court&quot; players and some appeal to all the people in between.So, are you making the argument that just because it's D&amp;D (well, OGL really) it's automatically marketed at pre-teens and teens?Would you argue that for every single OGL product out there?Hardly, I'll again argue that it's only people who have issues with sexuality, and average to bad RPG design, who really have a problem with BOEF (and the latter could be said of many, many other products, so it really comes back to issues with sexuality).I'd argue that parents who dismiss a whole hobby, especially one as diverse as RPGs, because of one single book have other issues they need to deal with.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GentleGiant, post: 4142883, member: 11829"] Who marketed it to pre-teens and teens? The bookstore? Nothing on the book itself proclaims this. RPGs and D&D are wide ranging products, some appeal to "kill the monsters and loot the treasure, then onwards to the next dungeon" players and some appeal to "you have now successfully infiltrated the King's court" players and some appeal to all the people in between. So, are you making the argument that just because it's D&D (well, OGL really) it's automatically marketed at pre-teens and teens? Would you argue that for every single OGL product out there? Hardly, I'll again argue that it's only people who have issues with sexuality, and average to bad RPG design, who really have a problem with BOEF (and the latter could be said of many, many other products, so it really comes back to issues with sexuality). I'd argue that parents who dismiss a whole hobby, especially one as diverse as RPGs, because of one single book have other issues they need to deal with. [/QUOTE]

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