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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 7729210" data-attributes="member: 53082">I'm with you to a point. I think some of the discord is that the front page articles used to be mainly &quot;news&quot; or &quot;reviews&quot; from an original point of view. Now we have this type of article which is basically a re-telling of the linked blog entries on the Paizo blog. It's not a review, but it's not really news either as the Wilderness book was announced a while back. It's not a straight repost of the blog material either. So it's sort of a summary of a series of blog entries which are already not that long to begin with. It's not a new product announcement or a review but more of a ummary of a &quot;preview&quot; of what's coming in some new products. If you click on the links in the article you'll see what I mean. It's not necessarily wrong but it's an odd duck. In the old Eric Noah's 3rd Edition News days we came here because there weren't a ton of places to catch up on things and the monthly Dragon 3E discussion articles could be discussed and interpreted and speculated upon here. People would take that material and do all kinds of things with it in the forums. This is still the center of the D&amp;D universe online as far as I'm concerned, especially with WOTC shutting down their own forums. But Pathfinder has it's own forums on Paizo and a whole bunch of that discussion happens there. Presumably the people who really care are following the blog and conversation there.&nbsp; Pathfinder is a big part of the general D&amp;D scene though, so what do they do here? Ignore it? That seems like a bad choice. So you end up with a press-release type article here that refers to the deeper information yet is not presented by Paizo itself but by a fan. It's in kind of a strange place but I think it's just where things are for now. I believe we have seen press release type articles from other D&amp;D type game publishers here (13th Age, Shadow of a Demon Lord, various OSR) too so even if it was a Paizo press release I don't think it would be out of line. That's one of the reasons we come here, right? Sometimes it just takes a minute to parse out what a particular article is actually doing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 7729210, member: 53082"] I'm with you to a point. I think some of the discord is that the front page articles used to be mainly "news" or "reviews" from an original point of view. Now we have this type of article which is basically a re-telling of the linked blog entries on the Paizo blog. It's not a review, but it's not really news either as the Wilderness book was announced a while back. It's not a straight repost of the blog material either. So it's sort of a summary of a series of blog entries which are already not that long to begin with. It's not a new product announcement or a review but more of a ummary of a "preview" of what's coming in some new products. If you click on the links in the article you'll see what I mean. It's not necessarily wrong but it's an odd duck. In the old Eric Noah's 3rd Edition News days we came here because there weren't a ton of places to catch up on things and the monthly Dragon 3E discussion articles could be discussed and interpreted and speculated upon here. People would take that material and do all kinds of things with it in the forums. This is still the center of the D&D universe online as far as I'm concerned, especially with WOTC shutting down their own forums. But Pathfinder has it's own forums on Paizo and a whole bunch of that discussion happens there. Presumably the people who really care are following the blog and conversation there. Pathfinder is a big part of the general D&D scene though, so what do they do here? Ignore it? That seems like a bad choice. So you end up with a press-release type article here that refers to the deeper information yet is not presented by Paizo itself but by a fan. It's in kind of a strange place but I think it's just where things are for now. I believe we have seen press release type articles from other D&D type game publishers here (13th Age, Shadow of a Demon Lord, various OSR) too so even if it was a Paizo press release I don't think it would be out of line. That's one of the reasons we come here, right? Sometimes it just takes a minute to parse out what a particular article is actually doing. [/QUOTE]

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