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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 5828477" data-attributes="member: 73683">Your rule books are not made obsolete. They are fully functional. They allow you to play the game. They do not allow you to play the most up-to-date version of the game by themselves. On the other hand, neither do the rules updates allow you to play the most up-to-date version of the game by themselves.Again, it boils down to a fairly simple, two-scenario situation:1) You like rules updates. In this scenario, you think rules updates are good, and you therefore incorporate them into your game using whatever means you feel works best - reliance on the Compendium, post-it notes in your books, or whatever. Everything is groovy.2) You hate rules updates. In this scenario, you think rules updates are bad, and you therefore make no effort to incorporate them into your game. Everyone in your game plays by the original rules. Everything is groovy.The only pseudo-concern arises when you want to use the original rules but your players rely on the Character Builder. I say "pseudo-concern" because it's really only a concern if you object to rules updates on philosophical grounds - that is, you object because you have a strong personal belief that games should remain static - rather than objecting to them because they're too much work. After all, the Character Builder handles the work of incorporating the rules for you. No effort on the DM's part is required.The short of it is that whining that rules updates are a bad thing for the game because they're too much work is silly. If you like rules updates, you can incorporate them. If you don't like rules updates, you don't have to incorporate them. It is no skin off your nose to have rules updates that you won't use published, and the continued insistence that the game not receive regular rules updates only means that those of us who appreciate the updates will be less likely to receive them because WotC might make the mistake of caving to the whiners.</blockquote>

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