Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5001661" data-attributes="member: 22424">It's also been the pattern with each past edition, and with every other game I'm aware of. The 'core' sells really well, but as you move on each successive book in the series sells fewer copies than its predecessor. This is especially true if you 'number' the books ("Players Handbook 2", "Monster Manual 3"...) as the perception is that you need all the previous books in the series in order to use the latest one, which means you're automatically selling to a subset of those who bought the previous book.It is possible that 4e will buck this trend. It also seems extremely unlikely.The problem with this is that there is a limit to how far you can expand before everything starts to get a bit 'samey', especially when you factor in re-skinning of powers. Once you've got three powers that do damage and drive the target back three squares, you don't really need a fourth <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />They could tackle this by deliberately introducing some moderate power-creep into later books (so that new classes are that bit more powerful, and users of the old classes 'have' to buy "Martial Power X" to remain competitive). But, honestly, I would much rather they just produce new editions every five years instead.</blockquote>

Verification