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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8650181" data-attributes="member: 8863"><p>I don't know, both 2e and 3e are serious contenders for the Worst Bloat category.</p><p></p><p>2e has a longer lifespan, 11 years vs. 8 years for 3e, and 3e spends some of its time updating material to 3.5. 2e also has about 10 different settings -- that number can get bigger if you want to count subsettings separately -- 31 splats, 15 binder punched MCs 10 softback MCs, 3 optional hardcovers, 4 Player's Option books, a handful of various supplements here and there and Battlesystem.</p><p></p><p>3e has beyond the core books has 44 hardcover books in 3.5 alone not counting the books from 3.0. The 3.5 hardcovers have at least 160 pages each and some go up quite a bit further than that. By comparison, the 2e splats are usually 128 pages except for the 96 page HR books. There's a fair amount of overlap with 3.0 material converted to 3.5 though. That's not counting the releases for the Realms or Eberron. Now a good deal of material in 2e tends to be fluff as well. At the very least if 3e doesn't have the most crunch, it has a noticeable higher crunch density.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orius, post: 8650181, member: 8863"] I don't know, both 2e and 3e are serious contenders for the Worst Bloat category. 2e has a longer lifespan, 11 years vs. 8 years for 3e, and 3e spends some of its time updating material to 3.5. 2e also has about 10 different settings -- that number can get bigger if you want to count subsettings separately -- 31 splats, 15 binder punched MCs 10 softback MCs, 3 optional hardcovers, 4 Player's Option books, a handful of various supplements here and there and Battlesystem. 3e has beyond the core books has 44 hardcover books in 3.5 alone not counting the books from 3.0. The 3.5 hardcovers have at least 160 pages each and some go up quite a bit further than that. By comparison, the 2e splats are usually 128 pages except for the 96 page HR books. There's a fair amount of overlap with 3.0 material converted to 3.5 though. That's not counting the releases for the Realms or Eberron. Now a good deal of material in 2e tends to be fluff as well. At the very least if 3e doesn't have the most crunch, it has a noticeable higher crunch density. [/QUOTE]
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