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<blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 3815297" data-attributes="member: 7624"><p>Well if designers want to eat, create more product, and keep adding to D&D they have to be capitalistic in this society. WoTC has to turn a profit or D&D is dead. Hey if we lived in a socialist utopia like the Star Trek Federation we could all do want we wanted for the love of the work, but until that time come, WoTC has to sell books. </p><p></p><p> 3 books a year for 8yrs would still equal fewer books than the splat book mania that has infected D&D for years. Only 3 books of well thought out, playtested materials would be a blessing IMO.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Even if WoTC only created the 3 books a year, which is a very, very small number of books, there will only be three, the first three that you need. No one has to buy what doesn't interest them. DMs will always have the power to forbid anything that doesn't fit in their game. Maybe if we don't have pile of splat books DMs won't have to disappoint overly eager players who buy splatbooks and think they are entitled to use them. If If there is only one player's book and one DM's book then it will be much easier for DMs to control the stream of materials into their campaigns.</p><p></p><p>I don't see a down side to any of this.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Sundragon</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sundragon2012, post: 3815297, member: 7624"] Well if designers want to eat, create more product, and keep adding to D&D they have to be capitalistic in this society. WoTC has to turn a profit or D&D is dead. Hey if we lived in a socialist utopia like the Star Trek Federation we could all do want we wanted for the love of the work, but until that time come, WoTC has to sell books. 3 books a year for 8yrs would still equal fewer books than the splat book mania that has infected D&D for years. Only 3 books of well thought out, playtested materials would be a blessing IMO. Even if WoTC only created the 3 books a year, which is a very, very small number of books, there will only be three, the first three that you need. No one has to buy what doesn't interest them. DMs will always have the power to forbid anything that doesn't fit in their game. Maybe if we don't have pile of splat books DMs won't have to disappoint overly eager players who buy splatbooks and think they are entitled to use them. If If there is only one player's book and one DM's book then it will be much easier for DMs to control the stream of materials into their campaigns. I don't see a down side to any of this. Sundragon [/QUOTE]
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