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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5733780" data-attributes="member: 82106">Yeah, I think also if you look at it from WotC's PoV you find that there's only so much they can do. AV1 and IIRC AV2 are both out of print (AV2 you may still be able to get). Without AV1 or a replacement that provides a lot of your basic core vanilla items there's a problem. Warlocks for instance practically cannot function without AV1. If MME was just all obscure additional items then either they'd have to reprint AV1, which is out-of-date, or put out a revised AV1, which makes no real sense and is no better than just reprinting revised versions of a few critical categories of AV1 items.I think in general you're going to see this kind of thing going forward unless they reboot the whole system again. Older books are going to go out of print, and newer ones are going to have to either be nothing but updates of old ones, which existing owners of the old books get dicked by, or else they carry some needed old material forward into similar books that fill the same niche. At some point the same thing is going to happen with the core books and the power books, etc. The way they've ended up structuring 4e practically guarantees if it persists that SOME material will resurface, albeit probably in revised form and mixed in with some brand new stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5733780, member: 82106"] Yeah, I think also if you look at it from WotC's PoV you find that there's only so much they can do. AV1 and IIRC AV2 are both out of print (AV2 you may still be able to get). Without AV1 or a replacement that provides a lot of your basic core vanilla items there's a problem. Warlocks for instance practically cannot function without AV1. If MME was just all obscure additional items then either they'd have to reprint AV1, which is out-of-date, or put out a revised AV1, which makes no real sense and is no better than just reprinting revised versions of a few critical categories of AV1 items. I think in general you're going to see this kind of thing going forward unless they reboot the whole system again. Older books are going to go out of print, and newer ones are going to have to either be nothing but updates of old ones, which existing owners of the old books get dicked by, or else they carry some needed old material forward into similar books that fill the same niche. At some point the same thing is going to happen with the core books and the power books, etc. The way they've ended up structuring 4e practically guarantees if it persists that SOME material will resurface, albeit probably in revised form and mixed in with some brand new stuff. [/QUOTE]

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