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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 5433748" data-attributes="member: 78752">I disagree. While every DM modifies official material for their campaigns, there is a difference between picking and choosing rules from a static base and having that static base suddenly convulse under you. These cards are not unlike the shift between 3.0 and 3.5, or between 3.5 and Pathfinder. It's not so much a matter of rule additions as it is the holistic upward change in campaign baseline. Can you play a D&D3.0 character in Pathfinder? Absolutely. But you will be at a consistent disadvantage. These cards make the same promise: upgrade or fall behind.Again, I agree: all DMs modify official material, and they do it all the time. But I would also argue that all DMs rely on the ability to run official monsters as published, especially in D&D4, and once the campaign baseline is raised that becomes impossible. Every newly published monster will statistically outmatch a character not using Fortune Cards.Common And fiscal sense both support my position: Wizards would be MAD not to ultimately require the use of these cards. All cynicism aside, this is a tried and true -- and incredibly successful -- business model! All that remains to be seen is whether the D&D4 demographic goes for the bait, and that I'm not sure of. Player pressure killed randomized D&D miniatures, but then again, they came right back as soon as profits dipped even further.</blockquote>