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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Southern Oracle" data-source="post: 1394769" data-attributes="member: 1249">Under normal circumstances (when operating as a business), people are assigned a specific portion of a project with a deadline.  There are consequences for not meeting the deadline, and completed work is passed through several other hands to be refined.  Bad ideas tend to be weeded out (or at least minimized) because of the extra bodies. With fan work, though, it's the most industrious people that get their work to print, although the most industrious people are not often the most talented.  (I'm not making any slights about specific individuals on the Planewalker project.)  The project organizers work with what they get.  I'll be the first to admit I didn't contribute overly much to the project, but that's because it evolved in a direction with which I wasn't happy.  That's not to say there isn't good stuff there...there are just things I wanted done differently, but I didn't have the final say. The Planewalker project is a fan work, and you can't treat it as anything else, even though they have a special agreement with Wizards of the Coast and obtained permission from Bastion Press to use the prestige race concept.  I can say I remember its inclusion being debated, with the argument being that certain points on each plane were concentrations of power that could physically alter creatures, resulting in aasimars, tieflings, and genasi, as well as lesser alterations (i.e., the prestige races).  While the idea has merit and precedent (especially when it comes to the origin of genasi), I don't care with the implementation. There are other aspects of the conversion with which I'm not happy, but I'm not willing to dismiss the entire work out of hand.  There's some good stuff there; you just have to hunt and peck.  If the prestige races don't work for you, just ignore them.</blockquote>

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