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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreamChaser" data-source="post: 954570" data-attributes="member: 1190">From the article:"On good authority" is the beginning of a basic logical fallacy.  I'm not going to try to ascribe motive to Monte's statement but there are indications of hard feelings over being left out and his indicator as to the "real reasons" behind the change is completely unsubstanciated.I like most of Monte's game designs.  That doesn't mean he can't fall into the the error of assuming his opinion is the right one no matter what.Also note that he says that the creative team makes lemonade from lemons...so according to him, he has faith in the designers to do a good job EVEN IF the motive behind the revisions is economic.  This statement actually negates Tar-Edhel's point in posting the link to the interview.  Regardless of the reasons, Monte feels that the creative team has done a good job.Thus, they would not have set out to frell the system or use just broken/munchkin examples to set the rules.DCAnd for the record:  of course it was for marketing and economic reasons.  WotC is a business.  The brass who make the decisions only use economics and marketing as standards for making decisions...that does not mean that someone else didn't propose the idea first with other (Read: gaming) reasons behind it.  It doesn't mean that it does.</blockquote>