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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theNater" data-source="post: 4331119" data-attributes="member: 62560">3E - Feeling short changed by 3rd Ed.After reading the 3rd Ed PHB it occurs to me that its not really a complete version of D&D the way 4th Ed was. 4th Ed had more races, tons of exploits and just seemed like a more complete rule set. By comparison, the 3rd ed. PHB deliberately does not include classic classes, races and powers that have been part of the D&D experience for over 3 weeks (Warlords, Warlocks, Dragonborn, Reaping Strike come to mind). If you want to use this classic D&D material in your game, you will have to wait (and shell out $35 more) for the PHB II. The Tiefling Warlock became an iconic race/class combo with 4th ed. but you can't play it with 3rd ed. as released. Likewise, 3rd ed classes like the Sorcerer and particularly the Barbarian barely have enough "powers" to make them interesting. Sorcerers get only ten choices for familiars even though WotC clearly has many more sitting on a shelf waiting for the splat books (Undead rat, tiny elemental, dragonling, etc, etc.). The poor Wizard, whose class feature is the spellbook, is left with precious few opportunities to fill it. I feel short-changed. WotC knows players are eager to play their favorites from future editions and they are holding out on some of the games best stuff...on purpose. To get a complete D&D game that has the best of the future versions, players will have to buy the PHB II (and maybe PHB III) and lots of splat books. When the PHB II hits the stores, l think players will be killing off their own characters left and right or begging their DM to reboot the campaign just so they can play the races and classes they actually wanted to play all along but could not. WotC will definitely sell more books with this savvy marketing strategy but more $ for WotC does not ensure that D&D is now or will be a better, more enduring game.Sorry, I couldn't help it.  The idea popped into my head and beat my will defense. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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