Book of Tempests and Teapots

From a gaming message board on a thread concerning the Book of Vile Darkness:

And the existence of a book with that title, dealing with human sacrifice and necrophylia, is sure to cause harm to the RPG field too.

Detractors will point to the book as reason to keep children from playing--and such a work is indeed ample reason for any parent to bar their children from such gaming.

In all it is absolutely astonishing to me that WotC and Paizo too, will publish such material, promote it. It is detrimental to D&D and all RPGs alike.

Most subsequent postings in that thread agreed with the author.

That post was dated Sept 18, 2002. The only people that actually raised a fuss about the book were people that were worried someone would raise a fuss about the book. Not one word has otherwise been uttered about it in any remotely meaningful place outside of places like ENWorld and wizards.com. Not to mention the final impression most people had was that it wasn't that bad and actually was pretty good for what it presented. Most people thought the hype over the BoVD was just that - hype.

Just another example of my curious fascination of chatting with the Ghost of RPG Past...