Have you noticed something? Wizards is listening!

[Kae'Yoss]

I actually like d20 Past and hope there will be more volumes in the near future at affordable $20 price, m'kay? *snaps*

AFAIK Apocalypse and Cyberspace will both be in the same format as Past.

Well, at least you have two printed gun products on the market: Ultramodern Firearms d20 (by d20 Modern co-designer Charles Ryan) and Weapons Locker (originally meant to be published by a third party, WotC published it instead ... with OGL attached).

Ultramodern Firearms d20 is pretty neat IMO.

 

[Psion]

The next goal - with 4th edition - should be to stop contradicting themselves in future products and build guidelines, which they actually stick to.

Yeah, good luck with that one.

Holding of breath not advised.

 

[Psion]

When the market for new feats and prestige classes runs out, its on to 4e.

Why do you think they have decided to glut us with core classes instead?

More seriously, Wizards products HAVE been more focussing on flavor, but it's not a move that seems to be being greeted warmly. Which frustrates me a little. But I can't claim innocence -- I am using more of the recent "generic flavor text" stuff than I see most people here admitting to, but still, I can see the problem. How does one adress a generic campaign with non-mechanical content? It's difficult, at best.

I think that D&D, given its place as mechanical and meta-setting support, will always rely strongly on mechanical aspects for its supplement sales. If it's not prestige classes and feats, it will be something else. And frankly, I like PrCs and feats, and I didn't like kits. I fear what the next mechanical invention would be, but if it changes much, it will mean major renovation of my game, which I can do without.

 

[Henry]

Wizards does Listen - at least, some of their higher-ups still do.

Why do you think I remind them how much I like the d20 license every chance I get, and how much killing it for 4E would make me an upset buyer?

 

[Psion]

Got a point there. I don't mind the DRM, but charging the same price for PDF as print and just pocketing the difference is pretty much .

Just say no to print-priced PDFs.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Wizards does Listen - at least, some of their higher-ups still do.

Why do you think I remind them how much I like the d20 license every chance I get, and how much killing it for 4E would make me an upset buyer?

I second that. The OGL model is probably the biggest stroke of genius they had when they thought about D&D 3 - and I love most if not all changes they made, so this isn't a "one-eyed in the realm of the blind" thing when I speak about "biggest".

 

[Hussar]

I have to admit, Sandstorm is the first WOTC book I bought since my 3.5 PHB. I was terribly jaded after buying umpteen splatbooks and then having them all flushed down the toilet by 3.5. I figured I could just stick to a few of the books and a lot of free stuff that's available on the net. There's tons of netbooks and whatnot out there, so why bother right?

Well, I picked up Sandstorm and I gotta say that I'm incredibly impressed. Not only is the book good for the setting, but it's fun to read as well. Instead of the old "More feats/PrC's/Magic" crap that they and every other d20 publisher out there seemed to be turning out, it's actually a nicely balanced book. If this is what WOTC is creating now, I think I'm going to start shelling out some more for their products.

 

[MonsterMash]

You know, I read "Tshirt thousand members" here. Confused the heck out of my at first

Damn, someone else must have got my tshirt

Question is: Will they get enough money out of it to make a profit out of it. You know, most of those who originally played that stuff are all long dead or too old to game (or remember their names)

Damn young whippersnapper, whatever your name is.....

 

[diaglo]

I second that. The OGL model is probably the biggest stroke of genius they had when they thought about D&D 3 - and I love most if not all changes they made, so this isn't a "one-eyed trouser worm in the realm of the blind" thing when I speak about "biggest".

fixxed it fer ya.

 

[Ranger REG]

after complaining since 1997 about an introductory book on D&D gaming for the mass market...

what i've been bugging them about since the 2000ed release...renamed:

The Complete Idiot's Guide to d02 Roleplaying

they did something about it...

D&D for Dummies.

yeah, i think they are listening.

At least they're half-listening. Can't stand them Idiot's Guide series.