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<blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 3017524" data-attributes="member: 23937"><p>Spoilers and adventure promotion are often at cross-purposes. You might have an incredible adventure, but if you're trying to promote it without spoilers, it's very difficult to get people excited about playing it. For home-brew games, this isn't a concern (yet another example why home-made adventures are so cool), but for pre-packaged adventures, we sometimes have to edge into spoiler territory. Cover lines on magazines tread a similar dangerous grounds (as do the illustrations on the cover of Dungeon themselves).</p><p></p><p>In the end, the fact that Demogorgon's a major part of the new adventure path is a fairly minor spoiler, along the same lines as revealing that the main bad guy of Ravenloft's a vampire, or that the bad guy in Queen of the Spiders is Lolth, or that Kyuss is involved in the Age of Worms. The true mystery is instead WHAT the bad guy is up to, how he's up to it, and what the PCs will have to do to stop him. A little bit of insider knowledge might spoile some aspects of the adventure, but the anticipation and excitement of that knowledge is generally more than a fair tradeoff.</p><p></p><p>All that said, the letters column of Dragon probably wasn't the best place to mention Demogorgon's presence in the adventure path. We'll try to keep a tighter reign on spoilers in areas like that in the future.</p><p></p><p>And if my players laughed at Pazuzu's name in my game, I might just break down and cry. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Jacobs, post: 3017524, member: 23937"] Spoilers and adventure promotion are often at cross-purposes. You might have an incredible adventure, but if you're trying to promote it without spoilers, it's very difficult to get people excited about playing it. For home-brew games, this isn't a concern (yet another example why home-made adventures are so cool), but for pre-packaged adventures, we sometimes have to edge into spoiler territory. Cover lines on magazines tread a similar dangerous grounds (as do the illustrations on the cover of Dungeon themselves). In the end, the fact that Demogorgon's a major part of the new adventure path is a fairly minor spoiler, along the same lines as revealing that the main bad guy of Ravenloft's a vampire, or that the bad guy in Queen of the Spiders is Lolth, or that Kyuss is involved in the Age of Worms. The true mystery is instead WHAT the bad guy is up to, how he's up to it, and what the PCs will have to do to stop him. A little bit of insider knowledge might spoile some aspects of the adventure, but the anticipation and excitement of that knowledge is generally more than a fair tradeoff. All that said, the letters column of Dragon probably wasn't the best place to mention Demogorgon's presence in the adventure path. We'll try to keep a tighter reign on spoilers in areas like that in the future. And if my players laughed at Pazuzu's name in my game, I might just break down and cry. :) [/QUOTE]
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