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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 1805306" data-attributes="member: 6182">(The mention of Monte stems from him supposedly * being behind some of the alignment / undead / negative energy issues in the BoVD that have so many people hating the book despite the interesting ideas found elsewhere, and for the Str trumps all notion in racial mod balancing, which many many threads are devoted too arguing against.  * I have no idea if any of this is true, due to having a life.  If I'm wrong, I'll happily take it back.  Either way, Monte is a brilliant designer, and TSR and WotC both owe most of my thousands of dollars in purchases to him and the PS crew.)I agree that the press release works on a shock-jock level.  However, as many know, Howard Stern is on his way out...--The problem, Sean, is that you're making it very clear that you're going to give a biased view of things (since you've already listed two things that many find to be very good ideas for individual gaming styles that you declare as bad).  If I were in the position to take on such a project, I'd be focusing less on 'good' and 'bad' and more on 'does this help you in YOUR game'.  As it is, that press release reminds me of my literature teachers who are all quite certain that Fantasy and Science Fiction are 'bad', while "The Great Gatsby" is worth preserving forever, and anyone who ever enjoyed a Harlequin romance novel is a lower form of being (seriously, my Brit lit teacher said that 'literature' makes you BETTER than everyone else).The more bias you have, the less useful you'll be.  Bias is only good for keeping the audience who already agrees with you.  Being reasonable is what gets you 'converts'.</blockquote>

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