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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 1472922" data-attributes="member: 3400">That clearly would depend, not on the DM running the campaign who always has the choice, but on the editorial policies and plans of the publication who, producing an "official" publication perhaps, might feel that they should provide for all of the standard options so that the DMs reading the article can make those decisions for themselves. In other words, the burden of being an official magazine might make them feel that they do have to provide information for all of the official options in the game, whether the average DM and gaming table is actually going to use them or not.There's a big difference between a major publication including such information in an attempt to provide a complete look at things in the core, and a DM restricting things at the gaming table.I suppose you could look at it from the point of view of catering to the fan base in the sense that we DMs like to have broad options to pick from when designing out campaigns and deciding what to include and what not to include without having to do all the extra work of kitting some of the options up in the first place. It depends on how you spin it whether it's a service to us busy DMs or a nightmare to DMs because it caters to the base, immature, munchkin players.In most things in life, choice is a good thing. I'd rather have that choice pushed out to me rather than have somebody else do it for me.</blockquote>

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