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<blockquote data-quote="Twowolves" data-source="post: 4291791" data-attributes="member: 18093">Why not? Because all that &quot;baggage&quot; was what appealed to lots of players in the first place, maybe? And regarding &quot;rebuying what you already own&quot;, do you mean like gnomes, bards and frost giants? Or do you think they threw that &quot;baggage&quot; out as well? I don't think so. Second edition had splat books for fighters and clerics and even frickin' ninjas, and then guess what: 3rd ed had splatbooks for fighters and clerics and ninjas. 2nd ed had sourcebooks for geographical regions of their published settings; 3rd ed covered the same ground. Wanna bet there will be 4th ed books detailing the same_exact_regions, especially now that they &quot;blew up&quot; the settings? Wanna bet, pretty please? The cycle of a new edition consists of selling you what you already own, with just enough changes to make you stand up and shout &quot;IT MUST BE MINE!!!!&quot;Well, not everyone will be buying it. &quot;Drink the kool-aid and be happy with what we tell you to be happy with.&quot; Umm... no thanks. But hey, that's ok, because I've had it made abundantly clear to me that after years of brand loyalty and thousands of dollars of my business, I'm not the target audience anymore, so I don't count. Welcome to Marginalizationville; population: you!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Twowolves, post: 4291791, member: 18093"] Why not? Because all that "baggage" was what appealed to lots of players in the first place, maybe? And regarding "rebuying what you already own", do you mean like gnomes, bards and frost giants? Or do you think they threw that "baggage" out as well? I don't think so. Second edition had splat books for fighters and clerics and even frickin' ninjas, and then guess what: 3rd ed had splatbooks for fighters and clerics and ninjas. 2nd ed had sourcebooks for geographical regions of their published settings; 3rd ed covered the same ground. Wanna bet there will be 4th ed books detailing the [U]same_exact_regions[/U], especially now that they "blew up" the settings? Wanna bet, pretty please? The cycle of a new edition consists of selling you what you already own, with just enough changes to make you stand up and shout "[B]IT MUST BE MINE!!!![/B]" Well, not [I]everyone [/I] will be buying it. "Drink the kool-aid and be happy with what we tell you to be happy with." Umm... no thanks. But hey, that's ok, because I've had it made abundantly clear to me that after years of brand loyalty and thousands of dollars of my business, I'm not the target audience anymore, so I don't count. Welcome to Marginalizationville; population: you! [/QUOTE]

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