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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2886820" data-attributes="member: 22779">I was thinking of Paizo as I wrote this.  Dragon, and especially Dungeon, either prints full stat blocks or reprints the necessary bits from whatever supplement they are drawing from (usually).  Why can't d20 publishers do the same?  If you add a new 20 level class to a module, for example, how much cost does it add to add two or three pages?  Considering those two or three pages cost the maker zero to design because he's lifting it wholesale from OGC.  And, if you are going the pdf route, adding 3 pages costs zero truly.  All it takes is the time to cut and paste into your document.And, three pages for a PrC or core class is only if you follow the current WOTC format.  There's nothing saying you have to do that and cannot condense the material.  Besides, most d20 material isn't written in that format.  To make it three pages long, you'd actually have to add considerable material.I hate it when publications reference other books without reprinting.  I would much rather they either didn't or reprinted the material so I don't have to hunt around for it.  All referencing does is annoy me that they want to flog their other product in the one that I bought.  When Dragon had a string of Ecologies from non-core products, I voiced a complaint, and judging from a letter printed in the recent magazine, I wasn't the only one.I think assuming that someone has book X is a thinly disguised method of advertising book X in a book I did buy.  Reprinting is much better IMO.</blockquote>

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