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Does this mean I should scrap my d20 article on integrating the Kama Sutra into your game?Johnny Wilson said:
4) I'm hoping for some "normal" issues without any salacious
material for the conspiratorial grist mill.
Does this mean I should scrap my d20 article on integrating the Kama Sutra into your game?Johnny Wilson said:
4) I'm hoping for some "normal" issues without any salacious
material for the conspiratorial grist mill.
Horacio said:
I'm Spanish and I must say he is 100% right...
Johnny Wilson said:2) I personally blew it when I did the review of the dummy book because I didn't look closely enough at the ad to notice the provocative stuff (she's a demon with wings...okay?). I know that's hard to believe, but I didn't notice the anatomical "excitement" until one of my editors held up a printed copy of the back cover and asked me if I realized what we had done. You can disagree with a lot of the stuff I've done and you can point the finger at me directly on this one, BUT the truth is that this one was carelessness, not a plan to create additional shock value.
robaustin said:
Isn't the woman a bit, uh, graphic?
Her nipples are showing and dare I say her crotch is also a bit revealing (think camel).
--*Rob
Yeah, it's true. Here in Italy, too. Among friends, noone even perceives swearwords as such, and it's fairly normal to have full (though usually not frontal) nudity in ads about pretty much anything.hellbender said:It is funny, for example, to hear people in Spain have an exchange of words that, depending where you are located in the States, would either cause a fight or a lawsuit.
Zappo said:Yeah, it's true. Here in Italy, too. Among friends, noone even perceives swearwords as such, and it's fairly normal to have full (though usually not frontal) nudity in ads about pretty much anything.
gfunk said:Either that or the vast majority of their reading audience are heterosexual white males age 15-35.![]()
Johnny Wilson said:Note to all conspiracy buffs:
1) Paizo does not do the creative on the ads.
2) I personally blew it when I did the review of the dummy book because I didn't look closely enough at the ad to notice the provocative stuff (she's a demon with wings...okay?). I know that's hard to believe, but I didn't notice the anatomical "excitement" until one of my editors held up a printed copy of the back cover and asked me if I realized what we had done. You can disagree with a lot of the stuff I've done and you can point the finger at me directly on this one, BUT the truth is that this one was carelessness, not a plan to create additional shock value.
3) We did not edit George RR Martin's vocabulary because:
a) we figured that those who would be interested in the
novella would already know what to expect;
b) we didn't want to be accused of bawdlerizing a novella
that would appear in its original form when the novel is
published; and
c) we don't hire our favorite authors to put restrictions on
them.
You should not expect to see either the S-bomb or the
F-bomb in traditional Dragon articles. Believe it or not, we
have turned down more than one story by significant
authors because the material was more sexual in nature
and didn't fit the game world. It would be hard to argue
that Martin's fiction doesn't tie in well with the game world.
4) I'm hoping for some "normal" issues without any salacious
material for the conspiratorial grist mill.
Johnny L. Wilson
Publisher, Dragon magazine