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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6601827" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Because you said this in your first post: "I believe releasing products lightly and slowly is going to cause a lot of people to become extremely critical, angry, and a bit selfish."  The majority of people replying to this post are trying to give you their view of why your sentence statement above isn't likely to come to pass. As it seems to be turning out to be, the majority of folks posting here are quite happy with very little or extremely slow release books. No extreme criticism, no anger, not much in the way of selfishness. So they don't need or really even want a plethora of books. Thus, your sentence/statement looks like it is incorrect (at least on these boards with regards to the 5e posters in this thread; this may or may not be indicative of the larger masses of 5e players and DMs...there's just no way to really know for certain).First, I'm pretty sure I (and every single RPG'er I know personally...roughly 15 to 20...with the exception of 3) am *exactly* the kind of customer WotC wants. They want people who are happy with a slow release schedule and who are happy to use their creativity and "rulings not rules" approach to campaign management and enhancement. This may be anecdotal, but I've seen and heard of quite a few "old timers" who were either playing an earlier version or an OSR version of an earlier game, or who have been out of the RPG loop for the last decade or so...and have specifically come back to D&D because of 5e and WotC's approach to "stuff".Second, as others have said, "mountains of books" to one person is "barely enough" to another. Personally, I think the best release schedule of all time was for 1e. This was ever so slightly more than a book per year (77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85/85/85 [big year!], 86/86, 87). If WotC put out 1 major book every year I'd be quite happy. What I dreadfully want to see, however, is a return to the 32-page "adventure module with detachable cover" as well as some print form of Dungeon and Dragon.Now, the big sticky wicket with me and books for 5e is that of quality. I've gotten hundreds if not thousands of hours of use and enjoyment out of my 1e collection. The 1e DMG was my go-to book for pretty much any fantasy RPG I play. It still is...although I substitute the Hackmaster 4e GMG quite often. I still haven't used every monster out of the MM, MMII or FF...and I've used the Keep on the Borderlands module for basic D&D to run campaigns that have lasted two years...on three separate occasions. If that kind of quality shows up in what WotC puts out...I don't think they have anything to worry about at all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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