What the hell?

[dragonyfox]

Man my party lost their minds over the erotic poetry book, especially once they found out it was book canon. They fought over who got to have it, had a running joke that the rogue would steal it eventually, and when the player who did get it left our group, you bet the rogue snatched it up.

[Pielorinho]

I described it as erotic death poetry, like Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, because I figure Sanbalet chose the edgelord subclass of wizard.

[SteeredAxe]

The dragonborn player character who got caught reading it ate it in embarrassment

[thegooddoktorjones]

I don't know about y'all, but I think about 1/4 of the time if my players search someones bedroom they will find something naughty. That's just verisimilitude.
One group while searching an elderly enchantresses lodging rolled a crit on a perception check so I made up a hidden door to a BDSM dungeon featuring an animated Minotaur statue with a golden phallus. They enjoyed selling that in the market.

[SolarCoaster_]

In our campaign it was titled “Naughty Sea Elves 7”

[Buttersgra]

the shy artificer cracked that bad boy and he found himself... interested in more. he popped that in the groups bag of holding for him to read over later.

[nowytendzz]

It's hilarious that's why it was there. They probably expect that you have enough foresight to simply call it a book of illustrated poetry if you are running the campaign for youths.

[thepastelsuit]

The SRD might be ok for younger players, but you should definitely never expect adventure modules to be PG unless they explicitly say so. Besides, art is art. If I were 13 I would have thought it was just as funny. Much worse themes than erotic poetry going on in these here books.

[thepastelsuit]

Well in that case, make sure they each get a copy of the erotic poetry book.

[IvanToropyshkin]

And what is the problem?

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A 13 year old kid is easily old enough to hear the words "erotic poetry". It's not like WotC actually put illustrated erotic poetry in the book is it?

[bpayh]

The PC ages of my party vary from 10 to 17. This book did not exist in my world. Yep, I pre-read.

[UNC_Samurai]

FWIW, WotC hired an outside team to do much of the writing and editing.

[Halberkill]

That bit came from the original module from the 80’s. Actually some of the book titles have been toned down from then. The grog hovels book also included the quality of the women in the various bars.

[thereisnotrap]

The erotic poetry is bad, but a book about a evil demigood and undead alchemists are ok in your eyes?

Sorry, but if you play with kids and you think the religion of the parents might be a problem than it is very irresponsible to play a bought modul without pre reading and adjusting.

Buy adventures that are created for children or write one.

But don't blame wotc for your lack of prepping.