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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 3695913" data-attributes="member: 93">I think that anyone thinking that D&D would be made better by having fewer books is headed for inevitable disappointment.  That just isn't an option; they simply cannot/will not leave that money on the table, and any realistic person shouldn't expect them to.The question then becomes, how can we make this game workable within that context?  How do we sell X number of hardback books and still give the DM the ability to easily use them ALL?  I don't know the answer to that question.  For me, part of the answer is electronic tools.  E-Tools was a mixed bag at best, but at its heart (and even in its current form) it allows me to use most of my D&D books in an easy way; I know more or less what feats/classes/spells do from the brief descriptions in the program, and if I need the full text I look it up - meaning I don't need to refer to the physical books all that much.  WoTC needs better tools that will do the same thing (and other things too), and not only electronically (though a large portion of gamers are PC-enaabled; Scott Rouse - do you have info about the percentage of regular gamers who have PC's that they could theoretically use in game prep, and the % of those who do that actually prep via PC?)</blockquote>