Complete Overload

[Buttercup]

I'll never buy another race book, regardless of who publishes it. Same with class books. I stopped buying Forgotten Realms with Silver Marches. I passed on Ghostwalk, Draconomicon and Miniatures Handbook. I feel increasingly like WotC is aiming at a different sort of player than me, though I'm not sure who that is.

Truly, I'm getting all my D&D/d20 needs met with the stuff I already own, and judicious purchases from d20 publishers I trust. Wilderlands, Village of Oester, Black Sails over Freeport; now those products are up my alley.

 

[Nightfall]

I'll never buy another race book, regardless of who publishes it. Same with class books. I stopped buying Forgotten Realms with Silver Marches. I passed on Ghostwalk, Draconomicon and Miniatures Handbook. I feel increasingly like WotC is aiming at a different sort of player than me, though I'm not sure who that is.

Truly, I'm getting all my D&D/d20 needs met with the stuff I already own, and judicious purchases from d20 publishers I trust. Wilderlands, Village of Oester, Black Sails over Freeport; now those products are up my alley.

This from the girl getting Mindshadows as well.

 

[shilsen]

It's hardly a problem for me. I made it clear to my players that most (not all) things from the PHB, DMG, and MM are allowable in the game. Anything else is open to DM fiat. If a player wants to use a spell, PrC, feat or anything else from ouside those three books, they run it by me and I say yes, no, or "let me tweak that". Doesn't take long at all.

 

[Altalazar]

What's the problem, here? It is all about choice. GM (for those poor souls who actually buy their cars) puts out dozens of models, many of them rather redundant and competing against each other. But that isn't a problem - people by the car they need.

There is no D&D police force that will go out and arrest you if you don't use certain books for your campaign. More books can mean only good things. Wizards stays in business, making money; wizards gives lots of options for varying styles of play. Look at the thread here on level of power for gaming - obviously, tastes vary greatly. As a consumer, I love having more choice in the market. As a gamer, I like having other options to look at. The way I've run my games, I'd never say a wizards book is off limits, but if someone wanted to play something out of the core, I'd take a look at it first. I don't need to read the whole damn book, I can just look at the part of it my player is interested in using for a PrC or whatever it is. Then I can decide if it is in or not. Takes five minutes to read a PrC.

I don't see the schedule as all that intense anyway - Warrior replaces a bunch of splatbooks. I assume Divine will as well - so it is more like updated/new stuff, letting the softcover splat books act as shelf-stuffers.

So I say, bring 'em on. More options are always better for the consumer. Think of the alternative - who here would really cheer if they stopped publishing new books altogether? What good is that, anyway? You always have the option NOT to buy a new book on warriors - but it is nice to also have the option TO buy, by virtue of it having been published in the first place.

 

[Pants]

Not so clear-cut anymore. Complete Warrior stirs me not at all, and is it just me or is the art TERRIBLE? Not at all up to the standards of other WotC books. I thought Draconomicon suffered that way,too.[/b]

Heh, that's been going on for a while now. Check out BoVD, MMII, and RoF for some really craptacular art. Thankfully, they seem to have gotten better since then, but they are still nowhere near the quality of the FRCS.
That said, I thought the Draconomicon and CW had some pretty good art in it.

I don't see WotC contributing to a glut. They seem in danger of getting overwhelmed by the quality of their competitors, frankly.

I see them as being afraid to innovate. 3rd party companies are starting to move beyond the rampant Feat, PrC madness (some are, at least...), and into more innovative areas. WotC keeps covering the same areas that have been covered several times already. Sometimes they do it rather well, but sometimes not.

 

[Olive]

Can some one explain to me why PrCs and Feats always get accused of being in a glut, but spells and monsters don't? I eman there are more spells in Draconomicon than feats but no one coplains about those?

 

[Nightfall]

Cause people like magic. And monsters...well they have their uses. Especially if you decide to do a kind of Gauntlet type game.

 

[Wombat]

I have no use for any more monsters, spells, feats, PrCs, "core" classes, or settings.

More than enough, thankyouvermuch, just like I haven't picked up anything for 3.5 (well, other than Skull & Bones, which technically fits that bill).

So, no books on the horizon to buy, cancelled my remaining sub to Dragon, only visit websites, and that less frequently.

Full shelf, happy campaigns, no further needs or worries

 

[Nightfall]

I have no use for any more monsters, spells, feats, PrCs, "core" classes, or settings.

More than enough, thankyouvermuch, just like I haven't picked up anything for 3.5 (well, other than Skull & Bones, which technically fits that bill).

So, no books on the horizon to buy, cancelled my remaining sub to Dragon, only visit websites, and that less frequently.

Full shelf, happy campaigns, no further needs or worries

At least for now...soon the HUNGER will consume you!

 

[Wombat]

At least for now...soon the HUNGER will consume you!

Probably so, but also probably not with D&D, D20, or similar items

Probably when 5th ed. Ars Magica comes out