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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 3684122" data-attributes="member: 23937">The top-ten lists in Dungeon were built partially out of my own preferences, but mostly/primarily from reader feedback culled from here and from the paizo.com messageboards. That feedback was overwhelmingly slanted toward issues from the last four years or so, which on one level I take as a tremendous compliment, but on the other realize is a skewed sampling. There are certainly LOTS of great locations and villains from the first 100 issues of Dungeon, but unless they were REALLY outstanding, they didn't tend to surface much. The Elephant's Graveyard, for example, is one of my favorite locations, and one of my favorite villains from Dungeon is Belphagor (from issue #2). Neither of them went on the list.As for the "high level" question... I think the answer is yes.As for the predominance of Maure Castle and Adventure Path villains... those two things are hands down the most popular things that Dungeon has done in the past five years, and possibly the most popular features the magazine has EVER done. The Maure Castle issue is the best selling issue of all time, I believe, and the Adventure Paths get far and above the most traffic on our messageboards (and sales always spike when we start up a new one). I'm not surprised at all that the villians from these series dominated the top ten lists.</blockquote>