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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aust Meliamne" data-source="post: 1003318" data-attributes="member: 95">Please forgive the rant but…I have a huge concern about DnD 3.5, the future of DnD, and future supplements.First let me quote some things from Monte Cook's review found <a href="http://www.montecook.com/review.html" target="_blank">here:</a>Remember when TSR became money-grubbing T$R?  Out for only your money, not concerned with quality product?  I've had this concern about WotC ever since they were bought by Hasbro.  Now I worry even more.  Strange coincidence that WotC puts out a revised version of DnD which apparently almost forces you to use miniatures (which WotC has ready to sell you).  Maybe this is due to the fact that the majority of DnD players use miniatures, but it seems a bit suspicious to me.This one really ticks me off.  I mean, really.  Are we really going to differentiate between a large longsword and a medium greatsword?  Don't they seem to be basically the same weapon?  Seems to me, as Monte said, it's more clunky, more complicated, and hurts gameplay. I'll just say that I'm glad I'll still have my 3.0 DMG since apparently the NPC tables are now useless for on the fly NPC's.Were people really abusing the ability enhancement spells that badly that the durations needed to be shortened to such a small amount of time?  Not in my games.This annoys the hell out of me too.  I spent money on those supplemental books thinking it was going to be a one time thing (back when I thought WotC’s policy was not to republish hardly anything from other sources).  Now this.  Which leads me into my next concern…I wonder about the supplements coming out in the future.  Take the Complete Warrior for instance (due out in December based on enworld.org’s news page).This book has more already published material, revised and updated (hooray.  I’m sure I wouldn’t be able to update stuff from Sword and Fist and Dragon Magazine to 3.5 without this book<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> ).  Now I know I don’t have to buy any of this stuff, but come on now.  You know that WotC will put some pretty cool stuff in future books, but I don’t think I should have to feel torn between paying around $20-$40 for a book for some cool stuff at the same time paying for some crappy stuff too.One last thing from Monte:Sure, I’ve got my 3.5 books on preorder (should be in next week sometime), but should I have to house rule the hell out of a supposed revised, updated, and more streamlined edition.  If it’s streamlined and easier, why will we need to house rule it to satisfy ourselves?  I didn’t have to house rule hardly anything when I started playing 3.0.  And maybe it’s a case where I have the old 3.0 way that works just fine, and don’t see the need to change some things. I don’t know, but I’ll be keeping an eye on what happens with upcoming products.  Gotta see if Ha$bro turns  WotC into Want only the Cash.What does everyone else feel?</blockquote>

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