new farie rego(xanth,maybe?)

[abe]

xanth is a land of puns & magic!
not syure how to put this in ars magica terms though,except by way of LOTS & LOTS of punny vis maybe.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SJE]

Piers Anthony is a bit too much of a paedophile (or at least someone who sexualises pre-teen kids) for Xanth to be anything but .... icky.

forum.rpg.net/archive/index.php/t-221568.html

SJE

[DIREWOLF75]

Piers Anthony is a bit too much of a paedophile (or at least someone who sexualises pre-teen kids) for Xanth to be anything but .... icky.

forum.rpg.net/archive/index.php/t-221568.html

SJE

Did you bother to read the link?

I think 2 of the posted quotes probably says it best:

"There is a technical term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The term is 'idiot.'"

Add to that that there seem to be quite a lot of disagreement about the books actual degree of content as well.
Accusations seem to be mostly about a claimed advocacy which noone seems able to locate.

And from hipiers.com/02aug.html :

Another asked whether, considering that I have things like underage sex in On A Pale Horse and Bio of a Space Tyrant, I am attracted to underage women. I regard that, however politely phrased, as an implication I am a pedophile. First, I asked the questioner to identify the page number of Pale Horse where any such thing exists, as I don't believe it does. Elsewhere in the interview I had a comment about folk who condemn me for things that aren't in my novels. Then I went into an extended discussion of the nature of human sexual interest, which is essentially that if she's 36-24-36 and fair of feature, men are attracted, and so am I, regardless whether she's 15 or 50, and I don't think those extremes make me either a pedophile or a necrophile. Well, I got no page numbers, and was accused of doing a song and dance, avoiding the issue, and of attacking the questioners. That's what annoys me. I get the impression that some folk want to make me out a pedophile and think I'm being evasive when I try to clarify the issue. I find all shapely women appealing, which is hardly the same. It's like asking "Do you still beat your wife?" and demanding a yes/no answer; some purport not to understand why such questions are offensive."

And i found this little "commentary" quite fitting:
tsunamichannel.com/index.php?date=2003-05-05

If you think he´s "icky", fine but throwing slander at him because of what he´s written, not so great.
Personally i´ve never read anything of him.
In the link, Heinlein is mentioned as another advocating "illegal sex", you want to accuse him as well?

[Gremlin44]

I've read at least as far as "Zombie Lover" (22nd in the series IIRC) and can't really think of anything particularly risque in the books at all. Particularly when one considers that reproduction in Xanth is accomplished by ritually summoning a stork which then delivers a baby of the appropriate species to the parents.

In any case, Xanth is difficult to handle in an RPG as Talents vary dramatically in power and the hero/heroine generally benefits from abundant plot armor (similar problems to running a Supers game actually). That said, constructing a pun-infested Faerie Regio shouldn't present any problems so long as your troupe doesn't mind the occasional anachronism...