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It is obvious that I am greatly in the minority. That is fine. I have always been considered opinionated, but let me just address a few of the points that you all have brought up.

I am not saying that we should burn all the magizines just because of the cover art. I just wanted to let Paizo know that some of its readers might not like the cover and give them reasons why.

Okay maybe my memory is going, I think the lack of quality sleep that has been part of being a parent may have clouded it a little. Last night I went over some of the old and new covers, Erik and Yamo are correct there are some covers from the eighties that are as revealing as the most recent cover.

I have not commented on the quality of the artwork. The quality and content are two seperate things. The quality is incredible as it has been for years. It is the content that I wanted to point out was a little more revealing then I would have liked.

As to the covers of other magizines and books. The only magizines that are in my house are Dragon and Consumer Reports and all my fantasy novels have been boxed and put in storage. Hopefully, when my kids are older they will be reading them.
All my D&D rulebooks and suppliments are shelved out of sight.

When my gaming group meets, if the kids are going to be around we use different language, replace kill with goes down and tone down the room and battle descriptions. Most of the time Grandma takes the kids.

I don't want to expose my children to certain things too early. I think violence and barely dressed people is something that needs to be explained and an explaination of context is lost on two and three year olds.

Maybe in five or ten years I won't be as concerned with this because I will be able to discuss things like this with them, but as it stands now I don't think I will be leaving this issue lying around.

Just as an aside of the 20 gamers I know I am the only one who acctually subscribes. They just pick up a copy when the cover interests them. Next time we play I will have to see how many of them bought copies.

"Feel free to look back at some of the covers from the eighties..."

I did. So did Erik. You're incorrect.

There are 13 examples out of 120 magizines. There are about 15 examples of clevage in just the 50 magizines published since 2000.

While it is fun to argue points like these, all I really wanted to do is point out that some of your readers have families now and while I am sure I would have more appriciated these types of covers 20 years ago, I do not anymore.

"I don't remeber this many scantily clad women on Dragon covers in the eighties and as a parent I do not look forward to them in the future."

You clearly don't remember the same 80s I do. Elmore, anyone?

Feel free to look back at some of the covers from the eighties, there were very few scantly clad women on Dragon covers. I would just like for people to look at this game and magizine with respect and not disgust, as a group gamers have gotten quite the stereotype set upon them. Frankly if it takes a little Political Correctness to do it then fine.

Besides, look at the core rulebooks they do a good job of representing the game without going down the path of poor taste. As I stated before, we are supposed to have imagination do we really need pictures like the latest cover art to represent gamers in a even poorer light.

I have been playing D&D for about 25 years and I have only written once before, about the rollout of 3.5. This time I have to write because of the cover art.

I am now a parent, a 3 and a 2 year old, and having this sort of art on the cover of a magizine that might be on my coffeetable is not acceptable. I don't remeber this many scantily clad women on Dragon covers in the eighties and as a parent I do not look forward to them in the future.

This is a fantasy gaming magizine and you are or should be trying to get more younger people to play and if parents are paying attention they will not allow their children to purchase this.

We (your readers) are one group of people who you can garentee have a good imagination. We don't need pictures like this. And if someone who doesn't read or play sees only the cover, what sort of impression will they get about the game and those who play it?

I will probably not be renewing when my subscription ends unless I see a change in the cover art.