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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Captian Tobacco" data-source="post: 5611533" data-attributes="member: 93707">I never really cared much about the new editions. I stopped after 2nd and given the wealth of information aqvailable for that mechanic alone (plus anything that couldn't get out of the way fast enough to not be assimilated), I never saw just how bad things had gotten. Part of the reason for the crash after 2 was the fragmentation of the consumer base ( the players). When forced to choose between GH, FR, DL, RL, DS, BR, SG, PS and a dozen or so other settings, many bailed, making their own settings and incorporating the best parts of the above. To some extent this appears to be happening again ( but not as large a scale). The need to get more books and information to the gamers is what the publisher are about. (My wife giggled about the starter kits when they came out. Have we, as players, really gotten that bad?) But if the company does not publish- revenue drops off. It must walk a fine line between a setting that works and one that adapts and changes from what the players are expecting. This can be minor ( a source book that details the shake-up of a minor kingdom or region) or could be catastrophic (Battletech and it's Jihad/Dark Ages). Either way, the players and GM should sit and figure what changes if any they want to use. Safer for all involved. I remain pleasantly surprised when a good reference book, of any source, comes out; more often this means that I don't have to spend the money on a sub-standard re-hash of the same materiel covered in a previous edition.Perhaps this is what really has you mad...</blockquote>

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