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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 2960406" data-attributes="member: 30709">On the one hand, a full seperation is the only way to really sell a new edition.  I'm not going to cough up for a 4.0 version of Manual of the Planes, or Epic Level Handbook, or the Draconomicon, or whatever, if it's basically the same book as before but with a few switched numbers.  If a new version can't support all those new book purchases, it'll be an ecomoc disaster.On the other hand, it's one thing to say "I want a totally new edition" and another to actually suggest what that totally new edition would contain.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />  Some of the changes between 2E and 3E were obvious: some only in hindsight, others were things people had whinged about in the system for years.   That you want a new edition but aren't sure what should be new about it implies either it's not all that bad, or that it's so horrible you don't know where to start.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Whizzbang's idea of a "living" document with minor changes and new errata every so often is the antithesis of your suggestion, and maybe not great businesss sense for the reason given above: but I think the next edition of the game might bear more resemblance to that than to the paradigm shift of 2E to 3E.</blockquote>

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