mamba
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spending a few weeks refining something with what, a handful of people? The I part of that ROI is pretty minimal, the question is what it does to the R part, and that is hard to answer.ROI is an important consideration. This approach means that WotC hasn't put out any books full of material that people didn't want: which was a big problem in prior Editions.
Worst case it was a waste of an amount that means nothing to WotC, because even the revised version gets rejected. Best case? Not sure anyone knows. So the risk vs reward here seems to be pretty ok to me
As to releasing a book of material people do not want, I am not sure how many people want a warmed over PHB with no major changes.
Sure, they can sell that to anyone new to D&D, just like they do with the 2014 version today, but for that they do not really need a new book in the first place. So the question is what gets people to upgrade, and right now it gets me more interested in what others like C7 are doing than in buying the 2024 PHB…
Maybe I am a small minority, but I sure am disappointed with this hard reversal