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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 585350" data-attributes="member: 87">Looks like the Magic business model to meThese revised core books remind me a lot of the business model WotC uses for MtG.&nbsp; Magic is approaching it's 10th anniversary, and it's going to its EIGHTH edition this April.The core set of magic changes on a regular cycle now, about once every three years.&nbsp; Cards from out of print sets are rotated in and some cards are rotated out.I predict we're going to see something similar in D&amp;D.* Broken spells will be watered down, or a few may not be reprinted at all - I wouldn't be suprised if they didn't even bother to try to fix feeblemind and just kicked it out of the core books.* Feats from the splat books will be rotated in.&nbsp; A few might rotate out but I doubt it.&nbsp; Prime candidates are those that have been reprinted multiple times now - like Spell Specialization (FR Book &amp; Tome &amp; Blood).&nbsp; I know of a few feats that have been in Deities &amp; Demigods AND the Epic Level Campaigns book AND the splatbook they came out of.&nbsp; These feats which the designers feel a need to include repeatedly will definately go in.&nbsp; I don't think we'll see anything getting dropped unless space becomes an issue.* I will go further to predict that by 2006 we'll see another revision that, again, will add other popular feats to the core. * My fourth prediction is that the revised books will include *some* material from outside WotC just like the Monster Manual II did.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Morris, post: 585350, member: 87"] [b]Looks like the Magic business model to me[/b] These revised core books remind me a lot of the business model WotC uses for MtG. Magic is approaching it's 10th anniversary, and it's going to its EIGHTH edition this April. The core set of magic changes on a regular cycle now, about once every three years. Cards from out of print sets are rotated in and some cards are rotated out. I predict we're going to see something similar in D&D. * Broken spells will be watered down, or a few may not be reprinted at all - I wouldn't be suprised if they didn't even bother to try to fix feeblemind and just kicked it out of the core books. * Feats from the splat books will be rotated in. A few might rotate out but I doubt it. Prime candidates are those that have been reprinted multiple times now - like Spell Specialization (FR Book & Tome & Blood). I know of a few feats that have been in Deities & Demigods AND the Epic Level Campaigns book AND the splatbook they came out of. These feats which the designers feel a need to include repeatedly will definately go in. I don't think we'll see anything getting dropped unless space becomes an issue. * I will go further to predict that by 2006 we'll see another revision that, again, will add other popular feats to the core. * My fourth prediction is that the revised books will include *some* material from outside WotC just like the Monster Manual II did. [/QUOTE]

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