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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6929452" data-attributes="member: 23751">Yes.  I want them not to be tied to a setting like the 1e, 2e, and 3e general releases were not truly tied to a setting.No.  3e was not set in Greyhawk with their general releases, no matter what the official default setting was listed as.  The entirety of the Greyhawk setting consisted of a small list of gods in the PHB.  That's not enough to qualify as a specific setting.If they want to pay me to come up with specific rules, I'll do it.  If you want to pay me to do it, I will.  However, I'm not going to spend many hours of work coming up with a bunch of rules just because you ask me to.  Those categories are good enough.Yes, the number of optional rules in this "modular" game was very disappointing.  I will agree with you that you generally don't switch rules mid campaign, but I have seen it done.  I also play multiple campaigns in an edition, so it's not as if rules can't be changed in-between.How is it not usable?Yes, two books of 160 pages would be years worth of releases.  Not a big deal.  Especially when you consider that a lot of these general release books are filled with explanations for the new rules, so it's mostly flavor anyway.Money absolutely does play into it.  The amount of money it takes to hire a few new writers is infinitesimal compared to their profits.  And a few general releases will absolutely make enough profit to warrant the hirings.That is sufficient.They will be happier than not getting them at all.  All in one books have to be so large as to be priced out of being bought by most consumers, or else they don't cover anything sufficiently well.  You end up disappointing more people that way.   Could, but won't.  History has shown that splat books don't put all that much crunch into them.  They will be padded with a lot of fluff to go along with it. And the world COULD end tomorrow.  Stop crying that the sky will fall if they release general content when the facts just don't back you up.  History shows that they won't release books in the manner that you say they COULD.</blockquote>

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