Dispersing the good stuff

[Crazy Jerome]

Dear WotC: If you save back "some of the good stuff" for later books, I'll understand that this is a necessary part of sales and marketing. If I need to get MM2 to get some of the iconic monsters, but MM2 is full of quality material, I'll probably still buy it. Plus, I understand that everyones' definition of "good stuff" is sufficiently varied that it will be difficult for any book to hit the 75% mark, much less more.

Still, when you put material that is more widely applicable in a relatively narrow book (i.e. classes in Forgotten Realms campaign books) that I otherwise don't want--what you are doing is teaching me to do without. Because I ain't gonna buy it. When you teach me to do without, I find that the lesson applies to other material with a minority of content that interest me, too. I'm not sure that was your intention.

Just so you know.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Hopefully that "good stuff" isn't stuff that they discover later, after all the playtests and original printing.

I want them to discover all of the "good stuff" before they print one page. If they choose to dole it out slowly, that seems better to me than having to modify the math later or tweak things because they don't work as well as they should right out of the box.

Also, a box would be cool.

 

[Ahnehnois]

Just like with any game, D&D should feel "complete" right out of the box.