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Message: <blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 1470619" data-attributes="member: 7859">While I can understand David's anguish over having something he cherishes being changed he does acknowledge that Dragon has the right to alter the articles it buys. Are people up in arms about the principle of Dragon altering articles,(they have been doing it for a number of years), the fact they changed a Dark Sun article, or is it general dislike for Dragon in general? Frankly the changes seemed reasonable to me. Dragon is presenting an older setting to the general public in a relatively short page count. People play with Paladins, monks, bards, and assasin prestige classes. They may not play with Psionics. I wouldnt call it watering down, but rather removing a barrier to entry for people whom are not Dark Sun fanatics. By all means if you dont like the rules or options they presented change them, but it is reasonable to assume that excluding core classes will inherently turn off people that like said classes. As for general maliase with Dragon, simply put D&D tastes range the gamut. Every issue there seems to be a letter complaing about too much fiction, not enough fiction, too many prestige classes(generally 2 an issue), not enough prestige classes, too much fluff, not enough fluff so on and so forth.I think it is impossible for Paizo to accomodate everyone's prefrence to the maximial amount.Write them a letter/email, they might print it, but it certainly seems they read them. As for the general alteration/ censorship issue, it seems to be a general practice in works for hire ettiquite(and law). Notification of the author would seem a nice curteousy, especially give the fact that the Paizo staff often ARE designers,(many going back and forth from WOTC), and pissing off your peers(and suppliers of articles), seems a poor show. I seem to remember Monte Cook mentioning alterations to one of his articles,(RtToEE if I remember correctly). Mr Mearls might be able to comment on his articles being altered if he is lurking around here.</blockquote>

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