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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GVDammerung" data-source="post: 2615633" data-attributes="member: 33060">Come now.  How big was Shackled City?  For how much?  Too big and too much for a Dragon compendium?  Certainly, if you hold out on the goodies.  I suspect, however, there would have been little inherent impedement to going bigger, particularly if the reason was the inclusion of the Nine Hells etc.And who is this "general audience?"  You suppose your audience is predominently other than those already familiar with Dragon?  I doubt this.  For those already familiar with Dragon, then, the inclusion of such focused material would have resonated.  For those unfamilar with Dragon, but inquiring before they purchased something with which by definition they would have little or no aquaintance, they would likely hear tell of the "great articles" of the past, most particularly the Nine Hells material which they now will not find.And this - "And it's our hope that sales of this first volume will allow such a tightly focused compilation in the future."  You repeat this like a mantra.  First, you are holding better material back and offering it as a possibility contingent upon the sale of lesser material - hostage taking if you will pardon the hyperbole.  What is more, if the sales situation is so precarious at Paizo that future volumes are so in doubt - all the more reason you should have lead with your A game.No.  I find your explaination disingenuous at best.  IMO, you mislead people and now offer nothing more than fig leaves, transparent sophistry and a proverbial gun to the head of the Nine Hells in order to sell intentionally less than the best product you could have produced.There is merit in the material in Volume 1, let there be no mistaking that.  But Volume 1 is intentionally also not the best you could have produced, do not mistake that either.The witch I can understand as the product of Wotc's policy (not Mearl's stated reasoning).  For the rest, I am disappointed in Paizo.</blockquote>

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