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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 2615506" data-attributes="member: 2174">I have hundreds of pages of quality material from the entirety of Dragon's publishing life. Said material would fill seven volumes, minimum, of the size of this first one. There is no way that everyone's favorite articles would appear in the first volume. None. It would have been impossible. The witch was not included because there is a witch, however lame, already in the core rules of the game. In the Dungeon Master's Guide, in fact. One of the bits of direction we received from Wizards of the Coast was that we could not include any material that had already been included elsewhere. While many long-time readers of the magazine will be chagrinned by the absence of the witch in this volume, I'm sure that if we had included it, there would have been complaints about repetition of material. So it's not included.Probably the most popular Dragon articles in the history of the magazine, and certainly some of my favorites, were Ed Greenwood's excellent Nine Hells articles. This series comprised three articles, totalling some 52 pages of material. Recall that Ed presented the devils in the first edition style, which is considerably looser than that used for the current edition. More importantly, the current stat block takes up much more room than the first edition version, which means that 52 pages is an extremely conservative estimate of the "footprint" this section would leave upon the Compendium.I love Ed's devil articles. But I don't love them enough to let them dominate 20% (and probably more) of this book, which is after all aimed at a general audience. For a volume centered on Dragon's excellent planar articles? Sure. And it's our hope that sales of this first volume will allow such a tightly focused compilation in the future.--Erik MonaEditor-in-ChiefDragon & Dungeon</blockquote>

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