Fan Disservice/Tabletop Games

Board Games

Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000 have Slaanesh, the Chaos god of desire, excess, decadence, beauty, pleasure, love, lust, and this trope. Its lesser demons, Daemonettes, exemplify this trope and all its servants eventually become this through the "blessings" of Chaos mutations.
- Well, this varies ~~depending on just how disturbed the current batch of developers or managers are~~ with the edition. As mentioned in Regular Marine here.

Tabletop RPG

Sulumor, aka Hellnun, is the most heavily sexualised Infernal Exalted, being a gorgeous woman in a sort of stripper-nun outfit. How could her being topless be anything other than sexy? Simple. The picture of Sulumor topless in the Infernals book is demonstrating a Malfeas Charm that allows you to render yourself immune to disease for a while by self-inducing horrible supernatural radiation sickness, complete with tumoriffic skin. It's really, really, really not sexy.
Dungeons & Dragons,
- Illustrations of Harpies will often portray them as nude or topless, but only to show that they are uncivilized and savage creatures. Harpies are filthy, ugly, and disgusting, never drawn with fanservice in mind.
- The illustration depicting Belia and Fierna in The Book of Vile Darkness shows Belia holding the completely naked Fierna, his claw drawing blood from her thigh, and both looking ominously towards the reader. It's not very arousing to begin with, and becomes downright disgusting when you realize Fierna is his daughter. And yes, it is heavily implied in-story that they are that close, but then it can be expected from Archdevils who embody the concept of Lust.
- From Dungeon #64, “The Porphyry House Horror". The villains in this module are yuan-ti who are funding their Evil Plan via the profits of a brothel in the Wretched Hive seaport of Scuttlecove - and have hit upon what they believe is the perfect way to make more profit faster. They captured a group of gulguthydra from the nearby caverns, using their inborn baleful polymorph abilities to transform the beasts and use them as prostitutes. This plan does seem good on paper - they can use the polymorphing abilities to turn the gulguthydra into whatever a customer desires, gulguthydra have low intelligence (ensuring their loyalty, especially due to multiple uses of polymorph keeping them confused and disoriented) but very high Charisma (as in, they are terrifying and intimidating in their true forms, which translates well into seductive and attractive brothel girls). They don’t have to pay them (using regular slaves is risky), and as a bonus, there is no risk whatsoever of STDs being spread, seeing as gulguthydras live in filthy places and eat dung and garbage, and thus have complete immunity to disease due to natural selection - this also makes feeding them cheap and easy. All together, this system gives the yuan-ti loyal dependable efficient brothel girls, and much less overhead costs. Of course, the big flaw in this idea seems obvious - gulguthhydra are filthy, disgusting monsters, and the yuan-ti’s customers would want what to lynch them should they actually find out what they are paying for. One side bar in the story says that should the PCs discover the plan and successfully reveal it to the citizens of Scuttlecove (that's the hardest part, as Scuttlecove does not have a reputation of a Wretched Hive for nothing, and most everyone is distrustful of visitors) they could defeat the villains with much less effort.

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