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I think WotC has it backwards (re: story arcs)
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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6622700" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>If they were going to do single classes, they'd probably have to release them all in pretty quick succession - about one a month. If doing groups of classes, they'd still have to do them fairly rapidly, although a bit less so - probably one a quarter. Either way, you'd want to get them all done in a year or less.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are reasonable criticisms and there are unreasonable criticisms. WotC are smart enough to know the difference. And, to be honest, the vast bulk of the community <em>also</em> know the difference. So if the result of releasing the 256-page "Underdark Heroes" sourcebook is that people start bitching that it doesn't have enough options for left-handed colourblind Drow Taxidermists, those people will pretty swiftly find themselves on lots of Ignore lists.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's no approach that is flawless, including releasing nothing (for example, see this thread!). So WotC just need to pick one and go with it. The majority of the fanbase, being reasonable, will accept that approach. And whatever they choose, a relatively small minority (albeit a slightly different, but probably not entirely different, minority for each given approach) will bitch mightily about it.</p><p></p><p>But be it in three months, a year, five years, or even beyond that, I fully expect WotC to put out <em>some sort</em> of significant expansion of character options, be that a set of splatbooks, or a renamed-PHB2, or something similar. So it's not like they're going to escape those complaints, only delay them. Unless their cunning plan is to eventually drive away their entire customer base so there's nobody left to do the complaining... but if that's their plan, it doesn't seem to be working. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6622700, member: 22424"] If they were going to do single classes, they'd probably have to release them all in pretty quick succession - about one a month. If doing groups of classes, they'd still have to do them fairly rapidly, although a bit less so - probably one a quarter. Either way, you'd want to get them all done in a year or less. There are reasonable criticisms and there are unreasonable criticisms. WotC are smart enough to know the difference. And, to be honest, the vast bulk of the community [i]also[/i] know the difference. So if the result of releasing the 256-page "Underdark Heroes" sourcebook is that people start bitching that it doesn't have enough options for left-handed colourblind Drow Taxidermists, those people will pretty swiftly find themselves on lots of Ignore lists. There's no approach that is flawless, including releasing nothing (for example, see this thread!). So WotC just need to pick one and go with it. The majority of the fanbase, being reasonable, will accept that approach. And whatever they choose, a relatively small minority (albeit a slightly different, but probably not entirely different, minority for each given approach) will bitch mightily about it. But be it in three months, a year, five years, or even beyond that, I fully expect WotC to put out [i]some sort[/i] of significant expansion of character options, be that a set of splatbooks, or a renamed-PHB2, or something similar. So it's not like they're going to escape those complaints, only delay them. Unless their cunning plan is to eventually drive away their entire customer base so there's nobody left to do the complaining... but if that's their plan, it doesn't seem to be working. :) [/QUOTE]
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