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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Midknightsun" data-source="post: 3706231" data-attributes="member: 46459">I'm still finding it funny that many seem miffed that they  have "thousands of dollars invested in 3.5" as if WotC put a gun to your head and forced you to purchase every splat book they threw out.  And this is coming from someone who has also invested heavily in 3.5. (thousands of dollars myself)  You are responsible for your spending habits, not WotC.  3.5 is easily played with the 3 core books.  Anything above that is simply what the buyer wanted. I'm not sure why this seems like a tough concept, or why them putting out a new version suddenly invalidates 3.5.  Your books don't self destruct, trust me, or I would have died in a town-sized fireball from the combustion of all my 2nd edition books.   Stay with 3.5 and be happy.  Its a decent system.  I, for one, am looking forward with hope to 4.0 and will be very interested to see the upcoming blurbs and such on it.As far as WotC "lying", I really don't get this either.  Who cares?  Silence on the issue could have just fueled more speculation and potentially hurt current sales.  They were getting pelted constantly with "is 4.0 in the works yet? Is 4.0 in the works yet?"  I can understand why they just started saying "NO".  D&D is such a niche market as it is, that I can see why they would want to throw up a smokescreen and use a little slight of hand.  I certainly have no heartburn over it.  Role Playing Games are complex (even most of the 'simpler' ones), change is almost a necessity to keep them fresh, and work out bugs that my have turned many potential players away. Plus, WotC is a For Profit business.  For the love of Pony, what did you think they'd do? live off the millions generated by continued sales of 3.5? C'mon.  We're not that big a money maker, folks.For the record, I feel the comparison of D&D to chess and other board games is false, besides the fact that many such games are much older than D&D, and so have had the time to go through their growing pains.  D&D is still developing.And like I've said before, if 4.0 can cut down on my prep time, they got me as a customer. Right now being a DM is more like a job, and I already got a couple of those.  I was actually considering going back to the old boxed sets just because I needed a break from massive prep time. If 4.5 does come out, not a problem either.  I can decide then if I feel the upgrade is worth it or not.</blockquote>

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