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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6782160" data-attributes="member: 37579">Like Morrus I'm not sure how much "vs" there is. The other products are not coming at the expense of the RPG products for the most extent. It's unlikely too much time is being spent making things like SCL or the board games instead of the RPGs; the D&D team only has an advisory role in those products. Even if WotC had fewer licence partners I don't believe they would be releasing too many more RPG books. That said I'm sure it helps having the partners. When they have lots of money coming in from other places the RPG doesn't need to do as well or carry the entire brand.It really seems like they want D&D to have fewer books. That fewer books sell better and make more money than many books. It's just that simple. It makes sense to me. Rarer books released less often are special and thus an easier sell. And its easier to justify the purchase.Personally, I like it. Pathfinder has a lot of crunch but any given book has an increasing chance that I'll never look twice at its contents... if I look at all. Many 3e and 4e and PF books just end up sitting on my shelf collecting dust. Rarer books mean content has a better chance of appearing in my game, of being desirable. Really, since the content won't get used anyway, I can replace monthly splatbooks with books for other systems. It has the same rough effect on my game and can be just as insteresting to read, but there's no chance of bloat, fewer broken combos, etc. If I really need more 5e content there's 3rd Party books.</blockquote>

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