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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 2777580" data-attributes="member: 2174">Ok. A simple list of all the issues we pulled stuff from wouldn't make for a fair comparison. All of the stuff pulled from pre-3rd edition issues was at least one page in length, whereas some third edition issues contributed as little as a single feat to the book. A better analysis would be to compare total number of pages, which I have just done.Including the cover galleries, introduction, table of contents, ads, etc., there are 16 pages of the book that aren't really classifiable as belonging to one edition or the other. That means there's effectively 240 pages of gamable content (including art) in the book.93 of those pages cover material adapted from earlier editions.That means roughly 39% of the material in the book predates third edition. 61% of the contents appeared in an issue within the last five years.I can understand arguing for a larger percentage of older material, but more than a third of the book is 5 years old or older, which is a considerable amount considering that said material had to be revised to the new rules and required new (expensive) art. Assuming this book is successful (which it appears it will be), running a higher percentage of older stuff might not be such a financial risk. Remember, before this book came out we didn't know whether people would want it at all.Thankfully, it appears they do want it, and my hope is that we'll be able to produce more volumes that will cover a wide spectrum of the magazine's era in even greater detail.--Erik MonaEditor-in-ChiefDragon & Dungeon</blockquote>

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