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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christoph the Magus" data-source="post: 3789720" data-attributes="member: 1480">Wayne Lion said:  "And they do need changing." In your opinion, which is of course not shared by everyone."If money was the only thing, they could easily continue to put out a Monster Manual, an adventure, a Realms sourcebook of some type, a rules heavy book, a themed book on a monster type, etc and repeat that every six months for the next three or four years before they exhausted - really exhaused - the potential subjects they could cover."Except that we all know that the highest selling books of any D&D line have always been the 3 core books.  Yes, they can pump out supplement after supplement (as we have seen), but none of them ever sell as well as the three core books required to play the game.  The D&D line eventually comes to a point where it just isn't economically feasible to keep making new supplements because the profit margin continues to shrink.Is money the ONLY thing?  I doubt it.  But I'd venture to guess that money is the PRIMARY thing.  And really, what's wrong with that?  They are a company that has to survive, and I, as a consumer, need to decide if what they're offering is worth my $.  In the last 2-3 years I've bought nothing from WOTC (the few gaming purchases I've made have been in the secondary market).  To have any chance of getting a couple of bucks out of me they HAVE to come out with a new edition, and I doubt that I'm the only RPGer out there in the same situation.</blockquote>

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