D&D Geeks... Will They Ever Learn?
I was involved in this, but not enough to justify posting to i_wank. And I would consider D&D a fandom.

Meet Roleplayers the LJ community for... you guessed it, roleplayers. It's a good place to talk about your pen-and-paper games.

Meet D'Nabre, a D&D player. He owns The Book of Vile Darkness a D&D supplement devoted to all of the nasty, creepy, icky evil things. He has a question about spell components. D&D rules say if a cost wasn't listed for a spell component, it can be assumed to be part of a wizard/sorcerer's standard spell component pouch. Well, some of the components from BovD are... questionable. Like the one he was asking about, the heart of an elven child.

I believe this quote from bloodangel sums up the reaction (and the wank): "Better yet, you could ignore the steaming pile of feces that is the Book of Vile Darkness and create three-dimensional campaign villains with personalities and aspirations beyond being as evil and offensive as possible."

The nature of evil D&D PCs and moral ambiguity in a universe where you wear your alignment on your metaphysical sleeve figures heavily. Much insult-hurling happens between those who like evil PCs sometimes and those who cannot stand the fact that some people run around being the bad guys. Very few people remember the original question.

So how much does an elven child's heart cost? Well, the OP asked on Wizards' Official forum and got steered to a table that said one silver piece.