Love and battle are both intimate acts, both done in heat and sweat with the soun dof cries echoing in your ears, and really - who is to say which is the more dangerous? -- The Paladin Valeria

For decades in the gaming world, the subject of this product has been the source of much debate and speculation. Now you hold in your hands a 192 page, full color book that will finally address the issues of sex, love, seduction, marriage and pregnancy for the OGL system.

This book contains over 20 new feats, 3 new classes and 12 new prestige classes, 6 new domains, over 75 new spells, 6 new gods, 12 new monsters, many usable as player character races, and variant rules. This material is intended to add a new dimension to your game - courtly intrigue and manipulation, marriages of power and prophesized births, dangerous seducers and sex magic. All of this and more await you inside the Book of Erotic Fantasy.

To hear you talk we are facing an apocalypse - the world ending as we know it, the stars falling from the skies, the gods walking upon the earth and condemning us all for our transgressions. Look, I know I'm good - but darling, it's only sex! -- Cheval to Valeria after their first night

This product is for mature audiences only. This product is compliant with the Open Gaming License and is compatible with the world's best selling Fantasy Roleplaying Game

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[Of course] you don't want this book for your underaged role-player; what do you expect from a book with this title? But if you're legal, and are interested in introducing sex and romance to your games, you couldn't find a better resource for d20-based games.

The BoEF handles sex and eroticism in a mature fashion, rarely if ever degenerating into the silly, somewhat immature approach other books on the subject take. Sex and love are topics handled from a variety of angles, differing by race, alignment, and other factors. There are new rules that are actually (sometimes more) useful outside the boudoir, and the artwork within uses generally tasteful photography and photo-manipulation.

All in all, if you intend to use sex in your d20-based games, you need to get this book.

40 of 47 found the following review helpful:

Useful for campaigns with mature - and open minded - playersOct 24, 2004
By Brianna Sollandry
This book has a lot to offer to any D20 campaign with mature players who recognize that sex and romance are legitimate motivations and interests for their characters.

If you want such activities to take center stage in your campaign, you'll find everything you need here, with a new Appearance ability score, several very well-thought-out base classes, a variety of specialized prestige classes, and new skills, feats, and spells.

But even if you have a more conventional campaign (such as the one I DM) and want the sex to occur "off screen", there's an awful lot you can use. I don't use Appearance, or any of the feats and spells that depend on it. Nor am I using any of the classes, but plenty of useful substance remains. My players enjoyed their encounter with my seductive Bard (a conventional archetype, if there ever was one!), whom I could have created with standard D20 rules and careful role-playing, but who was that much better with a smattering of feats and spells from this book.

The text and pictures are generally tasteful and well done. The spells and feats are mature and game-balanced, as opposed to some of the sophmoric efforts I've seen in other books supposedly addressing this theme.

The book does assume that the reader (and by extension, her characters) considers sex to be a natural and normal aspect of human relationship, and that whatever the participants consensually agree is fun is all right. If you are comfortable with that viewpoint, there should be nothing here to offend. Otherwise, perhaps you'll agree with other reviews I've seen that seem to think this book is somehow encouraging "perversions" in a role-playing campaign.

If the thought of a female bard hitting on a paladin (who, living up to her alignment, will not proceed with a liaison without ensuring that each participant is getting exactly what she expects) creeps you out, stay away!

I, however, found that refreshing - and highly recommend the book.

7 of 7 found the following review helpful:

Round out your gaming experienceJul 16, 2007
By Mr. A. Markwart
It is entirely appropriate that this book should close with a "What's New with Phil and Dixie" cartoon; "Phil and Dixie" have been a charming staple of the D&D magazine Dragon for years, and they have been promising a "how to add sex to D&D" comic for almost as long. Kestrel and Scott have finally written a sourcebook for it.

For almost all games/gaming groups, sex will be only be an occasional element; most gaming groups are, after all, "mixed company." Because of this, I expect that very few players will opt to spend their valuable character resources on the prestige classes, spells, and magical sexual items presented in this tome ("How often would I get to use my abilities if I took the 'Sacred Prostitute' prestige class?").

Because of its limited utility, I would consider this book a whimsical addition to your gaming library; something to giggle and blush at, but not something you would actually use. On the other hand, when a player dares to venture into sexual territory ("I flirt with the shopkeeper to get a better price"), it might be nice to have a resource to cover the situation.

I cannot give this product 5 stars because of some cramped typesetting reducing the legibility in some places; and because of some gaps, like the fact that half-elf/half-elf offspring is not explicitly addressed (are they elf? human? half-elf? random pick? I wrote a paper on it).

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Who remembers when 'spiritwrack' from AD&D1E caused book bonfires?Dec 27, 2006
By Regolith4 "regolith4"
The majority of players will probably not use this resource unless the campaign is of a particular nature (which might be too creepy a game session for most players, especially younger gamers...). Creative, matured players will be able to use the material as a means toward greater character depth. This book is an excellent resource for adding elements of eroticism and sexuality to a d20 fantasy campaign (D&D), specifically for DMs who might utilize it for enhancing the perversions of NPC, monsters and especially demonic elements (cf BoVD from WoTC), storytelling and portraying monstrous or celestial/fiendish unions, or adding spice/intrigue between NPCs and PCs (I personally would never recommend a DM play on the affections of actual players, at least not in most gsme groups). The production value is very good, echoing the best of the WoTC supplements, including quality binding, presentation, and logical flow of concept. The art work is simply stunning, and I can't remember a single RPG supplement using this book's particular art technique, a collection of photoshopped models; but, as with the Books of Vile Darkness and Exalted Deeds, not of the subject matter most would expect to see in a FRPG supplement. There are no graphic photos, and no straight-porn (scenes of intercourse), but where your typicle WoTC or GR supplement might have the painted subject cross her arms over bared breasts, in this book the photographed model bares all. As an aside, who reading this review is old enough to remember when the various spells from the 1E Players Handbook were actually the subject of enormous media attention because they mentioned human sacrifice as a way to appease demons? In particular, Spiritwrack and Cacodaemon, among others, were even excluded for the 2E rules because of the controversy. Now, 20 years later, not only do we have excellent supplements like _The Book of Vile Darkness_ and the Fiendish Codeces, but this outstanding supplement on the use of eroticism in an RPG. The 1st Amendment shines on, RPGs continue to grow...and how in the world does D&D escape the media and Bible Thumpers nowadays???

I'd heard about the book before I bought it...Mar 18, 2012
By Arthur O Podd
And it was pretty much what I'd heard to expect.
Fans of AD&D will recognize the format, an intro, character classes, archetypal personality descriptions, spells, magic items and an index. All oriented toward "Sex and D&D".
Mind you, not sex between players (the real human beings sitting around the game table).
Sex between the game characters, the numerical stats usually with an illustration and a brief description of personality and history that "old school" gamers used in the dark ages (you know, before the days when video games allowed you to animate those characters) to play "adventurers" in a fantasy world. Profusely illustrated by photos of people in skimpy, vaguely D&D style outfits, it ends with a comic by Phil Foglio (who's "Phil & Dixie" comic graced the pages of "Dragon" magazine for years and always promised to have a "sex and D&D" comic "in the next issue") that makes up for not having the budget to get actual line and paint artists to illustrate the rest of the book.

The new character classes are well thought out and balanced, and the ideas of how different creatures (elves, dwarves, orcs, etc.) as well as alignments (good, evil, chaos and law) would view sex make sense in the game world.

The biggest flaw is that I can't imagine thinking of sex, while sitting across the gaming table from 90% of the AD&D gamers I've played with. The few "hot babes" I've seen in the games were obviously not interested in me, and if you're into "role playing (acting) instead of roll (dice) playing" the thought of getting into a detailed description of an erotic encounter in your average gamer group is....eew! Even for an avid D&D'er like me.

So I don't regret the price because of the entertainment value. I just don't expect to actually use it in a game. Worth it for a laugh, or collectors item.

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