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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9714898" data-attributes="member: 6796468">I can, largely, agree... but.Between July of 2000 and July of 2003 there were:8 player-focused splatbooks (Savage Species was the last of them)4 monster-focused splatbooks2 Optional Rulesets (Epic Level and Vile Darkness)2 Settings (Oriental Adventures, Forgotten Realms)7 Forgotten Realms splatbooks (with player options)3 Environment/Situation splatbooks1 Spell and Item splatbook1 Starter SetThat's 28 books. 9 books a year, or 1 book every month and a half. And that's the OFFICIAL books.The first 3 years of 3e were INSANE in the 3rd Party space as everyone jumped on the OGL bandwagon and released great gobs of stuff. Including ways to streamline gameplay or shift things around... some of which became part of 3.5e since the OGL is a two way street.Don't get me wrong. There was definitely cleanup of material. But in 3 years there were 28 official books to 5e's 36 across 11 years. And that's including the tiny releases like the Plane Shift series and One Grung Above. Take those 7 off and it's 28 vs 29, 3 years versus 11 years.That said, you're right that 3e definitely needed some reigning in as part of the reason 3.5e came about so very, VERY, quickly...And then they went on to do another:19 player-focused splatbooks11 monster-focused splatbooks7 Optional Ruleset books6 Environment/Situation splatbooks1 Campaign Setting (Eberron)16 Eberron splatbooks12 Forgotten Realms splatbooks3 Spell and Item splatbooks3 Starter SetsAnd a partridge in a pear treeeeeee... 78 more books in the 5 years before 4e.And the first three 3.5 player-splats replaced and added on to the previous player splats. Complete Arcane replaced and expanded on Tome and Blood, Complete Warrior replaced and expanded on Sword and Fist, and Complete Divine replaced and expanded on Defenders of the Faith -AND- Masters of the Wild, before the Complete Adventurer replaced Song and Silence. And hey, Expanded Psionics replaced the Psionics Handbook the same year. FUN.Which goes back to the core idea of "Taking old ideas and refining them to work in the new system while also adding new stuff)... even though the books being replaced were only 2-3 years old.</blockquote>

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