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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5027948" data-attributes="member: 82106">I'll be perfectly happy if they release a 4.5, as long as they send me an updated copy of the 20 or so 4e books it will obsolete. There will never be a 4.5 because the rules are too interdependent. If you fix issue X it affects the balance of items A, B, and C which now have to be tweaked, etc. At best slight textual changes would be required to a significant number of things in most every book. If they're going to do that they might as well revamp the whole system and call it 5.0 at that point.And no, I don't agree with you Mengu. I know wargaming is a bit of a dying art and maybe you haven't been exposed to the real thing. Go dig up a copy of something like "Third Reich" and take a look at it. The rules are around 20 pages of condensed 8 point 3 column text. If you were to typeset that like 4e is it would be easily over 100 pages. There are almost no ambiguities at all in the rules. The first thing they did was to define ALL terms at the start of the rules. etc. That process is exactly what 4e lacks. 4e is from wargamer standards amateur work. Its a GOOD design, but it is simply not a well written ruleset.</blockquote>