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Message: <blockquote data-quote="irdeggman" data-source="post: 1471050" data-attributes="member: 16285">I have been pretty vehement in my opinions/statements concerning the whole "Who has the real official DS material" issue.One of the things I have said concerning Paizo is that these (Dungeon 110/111 and Dragon 315/319 are that they are 'one shot' publications. That is Paizo has put out Offical DS material that they won't be supporting in the future.  Basically because they can't and still make money.  IMO they should focus on what has made Dragon (and Dungeon) great over the years - adding in modular changes.  For example new prestige classes or an alternate method to handle defiling/preserving.  They should leave the "official" conversion/rules in the hands of those that have dedicated themselves or a portion of their lives to perfroming this task (that is Athas.org and the fans on the fan site).As far as selective editing, well as David pointed out he sold them the material and they can do with it what they wish (and evidently have).One interesting thing though is their (Paizo) lack of recognition of the "official" fansites existence.  Dragon 319 had no mention of Athos.org at all, as far as I could see - and I tried to look.I, for one wrote them a scathing letter (via email) concerning their treatments of the Dark Sun  (and other things) in Dragon #315.  I also know of several other people who sent them similar themed letters, to date there has not been any letters published that are critical to the way they have handled this issue.  In fact they have seemingly gone out of their way to emphasize the positive letters they have received. Cooincidence?  I don't know since I don't have access to their mail or internal memos.I did appreciate David posting on the WotC forums on this, and subsequently it puts him back into my more favorably received authors now.  I had heard (and now believe) that he really does understand the DS setting and what it is (and was) about.</blockquote>

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