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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Syltorian" data-source="post: 3706787" data-attributes="member: 17406">Beyond price and energy, it is a question in confidence in WotC. I'm not even talking here whether their comment on 4th Edition being a "long way off" was an outright lie, merely stretching the truth or a clever composition to make us understand the wrong thing. I'm not even mentioning the recent battery of decisions that many of us have not quite stomached yet (moving the magazines online, etc), which came too close together to let some of us believe they really care (as they claim). It's also a question, as has been mentioned above, on whether it's worthwhile investing in this if they're coming up with a "better" system in 2012. Whether or not a new edition is needed from a business standpoint, eventually people will get fed up with them succeeding each other. They'll keep on with new players and those who will play along, but every time, they are losing some of their hitherto loyal customers, as little as that matters for the business figures. Am I supposed to buy 4.0 versions of all the books I got so far, just so I can buy 5.0 ones in a few years' time? Because, if, as some have claimed, issuing new editions is what makes the business bring in money, that's inevitable. In my opinion, 3.5 could have continued on quite merrily, especially if they provided say a Rules Compendium to bring clarification and unity to it... without necessitating an overhaul. Add new material, errata, variants - above all, keep it compatible, offer options and ways of bringing them in in a clear, uncomplicated way; perhaps in the way of Unearthed Arcana. But no. I will not fall for it again. It won't last anyway, and I have better things to do than to worry how long these books will be useful before I have to upgrade again. I'll stick with my 3.x stuff, maybe invest otherwise in some Ravenloft material, check out Paizo if they stay with 3.5. I might house-rule in some rules from 4.0, if I can make them compatible. I won't boycott the company out of spite - I'll go on buying Eberron stuff and material that helps flavour - but unless 4th Edition is far more compatible with 3.5 than I fear, and unless I can easily rewrite and adapt the PrCs, feats, Sandstorm terrain rules, spells and even some UA variant rules into it, I'll stick with 3.5 in general.</blockquote>

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