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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 4313659" data-attributes="member: 7635">Ok, but that leads to some problems... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/1.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":1:" title="One    :1:" data-shortname=":1:" /> 3.75 syndrome. It took WotC 3 years to come up with a collection of rule changes they felt warranted a sub-edition. If 4e hadn't come around, I could easily see a 3.75 (or revision 2, or whatever) coming out this year. Considering we have about 8-10 years on an edition, this would've meant that before 3e ran its course, we would have had to buy the core rule-books as often as three times, if we wanted to keep to the latest version of the system. (and if you were a publisher, if you wanted to keep up with WotC's changes you'd have to dump stock and adopt 3.75 or be left in the dustbin as so many 3.0 products were after 3.5...) <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/2.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":2:" title="Two    :2:" data-shortname=":2:" /> New Rulebook, New Rule. Perhaps instead of buying new core-books, we add the rules-addition to a yearly supplement (something 4e is trying). However, if the idea was to change (and not simply add) rules, you'd end up with PHB2, MM3, or other books of that caliber being REQUIRED for play, since the new rules for grapple are in PHB2 you'd need to buy that book to reference them (in say, a Goodman Game's module where the new rules are present). Think how many 3.5 books got the "Swift and Immediate Actions" sidebar reproduced? Times that by the new bard class, the revised grapple rules, the fixed incorporeal description, the new polymorph spell, etc... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/3.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":3:" title="Three    :3:" data-shortname=":3:" /> What is an edition. The last (rhetoric) question is; when would the next revision of 3.X become 4e? Would the next revision to the game simply be 3.75 dressed up as 4e? How much of the game would have to change?</blockquote>

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