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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 999566" data-attributes="member: 10825">Well, no, actually, that's not the main argument. In regards to the second, we all want Wizards to stay in business. I like D&D. I like Magic. They've pumped out a number of other products throughout the years that I've enjoyed (Dalmuti, L5R at one point, amongst others which don't immediately come to mind). If they went bottom up, I'd see a sizable portion of my hobbies go down the drain. Claiming that the anti-3.5 camp is against Wizards succeeding is just ridiculous.As for the first, hey! I think it's great that the SRD will be available. I plan on taking advantage of it, for all the class changes (with the exception of the paladin mount), and the new things introduced in the books. It's the one good thing coming out of all of this. My trouble is that the necessity of a revision isn't one of the reasons that the new books are being produced. The designers may be doing the best they can to make the books worthwhile to purchase, to create a quality product, to fix the problems from the previous editions and books, but the fact is, the new books are not being made for those reasons. I think the arguments for both sides can best be summed up like this:- I like the changes being introduced.OR- I don't like the changes being introduced.Personally, I don't like a lot of the changes being introduced. As such, I'm not buying the books. However, even if I did like the changes, my argument would still stand, and I'm still not sure I'd buy the books. I run my D&D game with few house rules, and without any major problems. I didn't believe 3rd edition had any big problems, with the exception of class balance, and a few spells. Nothing that couldn't be fixed in under ten pages of text - certainly nothing that requires three whole, new books.As for people not learning not to buy unnecessary/only mildly improved upon products, I'm certain the revision will do well, but hopefully not well enough that Wizards decides it would be a good idea to have a new edition out for 2006. I think it's fair to say the revised 3rd edition books are not going to be as well received as 3rd was, and hopefully Wizards will decide to pump out new books as opposed to rehashed ones from now on, with that in mind.But, who knows. Yay SRD.</blockquote>

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