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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9433707" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Maybe it would be better. I wasn't sitting on the graphic design team meeting. I don't know if, per chance, their legal contract with the artist prevented them from pasting a big red line with text in front of the art. I don't know if they had six different versions with different ribbons in each place, and in the end, decided that they thought each one made the product look worse and less appealing to customers. But I also don't think they have made a mistake in NOT putting "2024 Revised Rules" on the front cover. There are so, so many ways for people to get that information, and the only time it will hurt a customer is if someone with no knowledge tries to buy the book, and decides to get the thinner, cheaper book. Or if someone buys the "wrong book" at a mixed book table... And at the end of the day? There is a reason return policies and gift receipts exist.DO you know why people are confused? It isn't because of Wizards. It is because people keep getting online and fervently yelling that this is a new edition of the game, that it is completely incompatible, that they only said it wasn't so they didn't hurt their sales (And of course the sales of every single 3PP creator making 5e content). IF people were not doing that? If we ONLY had Wizard's marketing and their statements instead of this storm of competing noise? No one would be confused.Just like this. "It feels like a new edition to me", "this reviewer said it was a new edition". Wizards of the Coast has been clear it is NOT a new edition, in the terminology that Wizards of the Coast has always used to denote a new Edition of the game. You want less confusion? Stop creating it.I think any DM who forces their player to buy a $50 book instead of sharing their own copy is a pretty crappy friend and DM, unless that player has a history of destroying other people's property. That's why I tend to get two copies of a rulebook, to share at the table. I don't demand my players be responsible for buying the rules before I let them play.</blockquote>

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