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Tantric sex game mechanics (or some variation thereof). Just think, after a couple hours of ritualistic hanky-panky you can achieve the same effect as Ethereal Jaunt, Contact Other Plane and/or Gate. Or maybe, instead of memorizing spells, using the power of your mind, or just because you can, you ritualistically have sex to prepare your

Well, since the book is months away from release, and what we know so far is only waht has been posted on the Net. I am not sure that we fully appreciate what this book may or may not contain. Based on some of the tidbits we have gathered so far. Here are my uninformed, sarcastic opinions about this new book:

Tantric sex game mechanics (or some variation thereof).

Just think, after a couple hours of ritualistic hanky-panky you can achieve the same effect as Ethereal Jaunt, Contact Other Plane and/or Gate. Or maybe, instead of memorizing spells, using the power of your mind, or just because you can, you ritualistically have sex to prepare your fireball and or cure light wounds? Oh wait, I bet it must have some new spells and prestige classes as well. No matter that they are likely to be pretty much the same as existing spells and/or classes/PrCs, just with a minor twist. Heaven knows, there just aren’t enough books out there with new spells, PrCs, or magic system variants.

Yep, can’t wait for the book to come out.

Pregnancy.

Great! Another way for me to punish my players when they do something I think is wrong or inappropriate. I mean I could talk to them about their character’s behavior, but why when I can just make their characters pregnant. That will teach them! After all, it won’t be any different than them finding cursed magical items (offspring being in the same vein as a cursed magical items, after all). On the flip side, when they want their character to be pregnant, but misbehaving, I can just hide behind the rules. After all, if they weren’t misbehaving and wanted to be pregnant, I would just let them be pregnant, wouldn’t I. I bet it will even have a nice percentage breakdown. It’s way to difficult to just grab a number out of the air.

It might even be introducing the “Sort-of-Pregnant” Feat or possibly the Profession (midwife) or maybe the Lamaze skill…you think? I bet it also covers things like creatures with more than one sex, or that have the males as the ones who get pregnant. You know, all the science fiction novels and TV shows (Last night’s Enterprise, for example) that have covered these topics just isn’t enough. Without this book, I might have to actually use some imagination to bring these over into a fantasy setting.

I don’t know how I played D&D for so many years without this book.

Touch on Fetishes

See Tantric Sex Mechanics above.

Can’t get enough of those good old crunchy rules to slow my game down even further.

Seduction

Yeah, the current, Bluff and/or Diplomacy check mechanic that exists now is just too hard for me to understand. I hope they devote at least 10 pages explaining how it works and all of the possible outcomes.

Rules, must have rules!

Cross-breeding

You know my players are constantly discussing why there are no half-dwarves. Oh, sure, I came up with some lame excuse like the genetic make-up of dwarves is naturally incompatible with other races…unless of course magic is involved…which was tried, thus producing derro…so not many people have tried since. But unless I read it in a book somewhere that it is ok for me to use such an explanation, I just don’t feel good about myself.

After all if it isn’t in print, then it just not right.

Infusing Romantic Elements into D&D

Harlequin Romance d20 is a great idea! If that is what we are trying to achieve, however, why not just call it that…hmmm? Oh, that’s right, I forgot, the predominate gender in this little niche market that we all love so much is male. Females make up the predominate portion of the romance novel/film market, however. What we going to do about this? I know, let’s tie it to D&D with some nekkid pictures of elves. Yep, that will help move units.

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All sarcasm aside for a moment, this sole subject – “Infusing Romantic Elements into D&D” – might have some value. It will be interesting to see how it is covered. It wouldn’t really appeal to any of the players in my group, but it might to someone else. It will also be interesting to see the page ratio of this subject to everything else the book may or may not contain.

For the rest of it? My statements above may be proven to be unfair, but I’m am willing to bet that I am not far off the mark.

I really don’t see what the hubbub is all about. There seems to be quite a lot of attacking or defending something that, at least based on what we know now, deserves neither in my opinion. Granted we only have the vaguest idea about what the book actually covers but so far it sounds like what we have here is yet another twist on the “Complete Handbook” with pictures that might range anywhere from PG-13 to XXX. Big deal. Not exactly something to get uptight over, and not much to anticipate either since it is likely to add zilch to the average D&D campaign.

Unless you just want to look at Photoshop pictures of nekkid “elves”. :)

To sum up my opinion on just the idea of “The Book of Erotic Fantasy”:

Yawn… So, what else have you got?

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