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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larcen" data-source="post: 1898867" data-attributes="member: 2406">Well, for me, the void that would be filled is knowing that the Dragon review I was reading has a sort of official stamp of approval to it.  I would like to think, hopefully correctly, that when an article in Dragon tells me that a certain reviewed PrC or feat is well balanced, that it truly deserves consideration into my campaign.  We all know the problems some of the 3rd party material is causing the game system(s), especially in the areas of balance.  I was kind of hoping Dragon could help rein in some of these problems with suggestions on how to avoid them.Look, this is coming from someone who has been playing the game for over 20 years now.  And Frankly, I am getting old, lazy, and a bit tired of getting buried in rules bloat.  Simply ignoring all the material out there is not that easy.  Especially when I do want to incorporate new and innovative ideas.  But,  where are they?  Do I really need to invest a lot of time and money to find out what's worthwhile and well though out?[tangent]How did Nintendo revive the home video game console?  By learning what went wrong with the prior ones.  They learned that a glut of poorly made video games started to burn out buyers.  Too much low quality stuff started to make it into the consumers hands until people got to the point that they simply moved on to something else.  So Nintendo said, fine, with OUR game system we will have a Seal of Approval on game cartidges.  That way, the consumers can be assured that they are getting a high quality game for their money.  It worked.  People were even willing to pay more, a LOT more, for game cartidges that they were assured was high quality.[/tangent]Is it too much to ask that SOMEONE step up (hopefuly someone with an “official” standing) and start filering all this D20 stuff before this industry relives the past mistakes of another one?(An acknowleding smile goes out to all the people hard at work in preventing this sort of thing already.  Like this site’s Ennies for instance.)</blockquote>

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