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<blockquote data-quote="ashockney" data-source="post: 410716" data-attributes="member: 1363">Official 3E UpdatesErrata and Sage Advice is for the birds.&nbsp; If wizards won't do it, someone else should, and I think there would be a good market out there for it.&nbsp; Download (only) 1/month, $3 - $10 price range.&nbsp; Official changes, updates, and clarifications.&nbsp; These should be official.&nbsp; Gospel. NOT the opinion of one person, who checked it with...NOT the espousing of various people on messageboards...These should be carefully researched rules (using and detailing the statistical modeling refered to by Monte, Bruce, and Ryan), with detailed explanations of how the rule was &quot;orginally&quot; developed, why it was changed, and how the change impacts the rest of the new &quot;official&quot; rules.&nbsp; These official updates should be playtested (in triplicate or more) and developed, written, and re-written to perfection.&nbsp; I would expect to see things like many of the above &quot;suggested&quot; changes addressed in this ongoing document.&nbsp; In addition, pre-packaged for your enjoyment, here's your 4th edition.&nbsp; Guess what, we'll all still going to line up to buy it, because...we're all more than willing to spend the $30 to get 5 years+ of official &quot;errata&quot; tweaks, and updates, all in one place.&nbsp; For that matter, go all the way to what I'd really love to see, which is offer the PH and DMG in &quot;downloadable format&quot; for $60, and let the updates come electronically, and &quot;patch&quot; my old edition, with an auto-print option built right into the patch that knows to print only the pages that got updated.&nbsp; I'd even love to see publishers go beyond &quot;core rulebooks&quot; and add additional official material that comes from the OGL material published by themselves or other d20 publishers.&nbsp; Variant rules, variant magic systems, variant classes, prestige classes...all polished to pefection.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ashockney, post: 410716, member: 1363"] [b]Official 3E Updates[/b] Errata and Sage Advice is for the birds. If wizards won't do it, someone else should, and I think there would be a good market out there for it. Download (only) 1/month, $3 - $10 price range. Official changes, updates, and clarifications. These should be official. Gospel. NOT the opinion of one person, who checked it with... NOT the espousing of various people on messageboards... These should be carefully researched rules (using and detailing the statistical modeling refered to by Monte, Bruce, and Ryan), with detailed explanations of how the rule was "orginally" developed, why it was changed, and how the change impacts the rest of the new "official" rules. These official updates should be playtested (in triplicate or more) and developed, written, and re-written to perfection. I would expect to see things like many of the above "suggested" changes addressed in this ongoing document. In addition, pre-packaged for your enjoyment, here's your 4th edition. Guess what, we'll all still going to line up to buy it, because...we're all more than willing to spend the $30 to get 5 years+ of official "errata" tweaks, and updates, all in one place. For that matter, go all the way to what I'd really love to see, which is offer the PH and DMG in "downloadable format" for $60, and let the updates come electronically, and "patch" my old edition, with an auto-print option built right into the patch that knows to print only the pages that got updated. I'd even love to see publishers go beyond "core rulebooks" and add additional official material that comes from the OGL material published by themselves or other d20 publishers. Variant rules, variant magic systems, variant classes, prestige classes...all polished to pefection. [/QUOTE]

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