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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7759886" data-attributes="member: 22779"><p>Ok, I've been dancing around this, but, here's my reason why you folks that want greater mechanical complexity in 5e will not see it from WotC:</p><p></p><p>Time.</p><p></p><p>That's it in a nutshell. Xanathar's took what, about a year of playtest material? More? I think there were UA articles being chucked out, and on a weekly basis for a while there, for more than a year to make Xanathars. And Xanathars isn't really adding any complexity to the game. Sure, a bunch of sub-classes and a handful of spells, but, really, that's about it. Some expansion on downtime activities. No new subsystems, no psionics or artificers or any new mechanics at all, AFAIK. </p><p></p><p>Over a year for WotC to produce that.</p><p></p><p>Now, you folks want an "Advanced PHB". How much lead in time do you think they'd have to spend to make a book, say a couple of hundred pages long, with the changes that you folks claim to want? We're talking major rewrites to fundamental systems - new feat systems, new class systems, new resolution systems. If something as pretty minor as far as rules changes go like Xanathar's takes the better part of two years to get out the door, something like what you want is probably going to take double that. </p><p></p><p>And that's IF you can actually work the kinks out of it.</p><p></p><p>Do you honestly think that WotC is going to spend 3-4 years developing a book for D&D that only a minority of gamers actually claim to want? Seriously?</p><p></p><p>Look, I get wanting new options. But, given how WotC approaches books now, it's just not going to happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 7759886, member: 22779"] Ok, I've been dancing around this, but, here's my reason why you folks that want greater mechanical complexity in 5e will not see it from WotC: Time. That's it in a nutshell. Xanathar's took what, about a year of playtest material? More? I think there were UA articles being chucked out, and on a weekly basis for a while there, for more than a year to make Xanathars. And Xanathars isn't really adding any complexity to the game. Sure, a bunch of sub-classes and a handful of spells, but, really, that's about it. Some expansion on downtime activities. No new subsystems, no psionics or artificers or any new mechanics at all, AFAIK. Over a year for WotC to produce that. Now, you folks want an "Advanced PHB". How much lead in time do you think they'd have to spend to make a book, say a couple of hundred pages long, with the changes that you folks claim to want? We're talking major rewrites to fundamental systems - new feat systems, new class systems, new resolution systems. If something as pretty minor as far as rules changes go like Xanathar's takes the better part of two years to get out the door, something like what you want is probably going to take double that. And that's IF you can actually work the kinks out of it. Do you honestly think that WotC is going to spend 3-4 years developing a book for D&D that only a minority of gamers actually claim to want? Seriously? Look, I get wanting new options. But, given how WotC approaches books now, it's just not going to happen. [/QUOTE]
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