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<blockquote data-quote="atom crash" data-source="post: 2349813" data-attributes="member: 22162"><p>The books that WotC are producing now are chock full of options. Let's face it, we have enough core stuff already. Take the options you like, leave the rest. No one should feel compelled to buy every book they publish.</p><p></p><p>Here's where someone is going to say, "But if we don't gobble up every book they publish, Hasbro is going to sell off D&D to Mattel or Matchbox or Coke or Kraft or whoever or they're gonna shelf the whole thing because it's no longer turning a profit."</p><p></p><p>To that I reply, so what?</p><p></p><p>There's something simple about playing a static game system -- say goodbye to buying 5 new books each month to keep up with everyone's publishing schedule. And nobody's going to publish the Complete Book of Whatever, a book so horrible it makes me want to hate the game I love. </p><p></p><p>If WotC stopped producing D&D books tomorrow, I have enough gaming books to continue playing for the rest of my life -- 1st Ed. books and modules, 2nd Ed. modules, 3rd Ed. books and modules, years worth of issues of Dungeon and Dragon magazines, the works.</p><p></p><p>It's not like they're gonna send out the goon squads to repo my books. </p><p></p><p>On the subject of jumping the shark, there's something about basic human nature that makes everyone want to be the first to predict disaster, so later we can say, "I told you so." Every generation of people since the beginning of recorded history have thought they were living in the end times. Add to that the tendency for the Internet to be used as a medium for complaining and we end up with 3 or so threads just like this one each month.</p><p></p><p>Woohoo! I added to the white noise that's drowning out the message!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="atom crash, post: 2349813, member: 22162"] The books that WotC are producing now are chock full of options. Let's face it, we have enough core stuff already. Take the options you like, leave the rest. No one should feel compelled to buy every book they publish. Here's where someone is going to say, "But if we don't gobble up every book they publish, Hasbro is going to sell off D&D to Mattel or Matchbox or Coke or Kraft or whoever or they're gonna shelf the whole thing because it's no longer turning a profit." To that I reply, so what? There's something simple about playing a static game system -- say goodbye to buying 5 new books each month to keep up with everyone's publishing schedule. And nobody's going to publish the Complete Book of Whatever, a book so horrible it makes me want to hate the game I love. If WotC stopped producing D&D books tomorrow, I have enough gaming books to continue playing for the rest of my life -- 1st Ed. books and modules, 2nd Ed. modules, 3rd Ed. books and modules, years worth of issues of Dungeon and Dragon magazines, the works. It's not like they're gonna send out the goon squads to repo my books. On the subject of jumping the shark, there's something about basic human nature that makes everyone want to be the first to predict disaster, so later we can say, "I told you so." Every generation of people since the beginning of recorded history have thought they were living in the end times. Add to that the tendency for the Internet to be used as a medium for complaining and we end up with 3 or so threads just like this one each month. Woohoo! I added to the white noise that's drowning out the message! [/QUOTE]
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