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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 2963892" data-attributes="member: 14159">I don't want to panic, but we love the SWRPG, and we really want the new edition to be great.  Heck, I know I'm going to buy it (I can't imagine it being something I wouldn't get), but for lack of detailed information (darn NDA's) we have to read tea leaves and smoke signals to figure out what's going on.  This is the first WotC product in in a long time I've been this excited in this long before release.  Condensing the game down in page count, while expanding the coverage of the Star Wars universe seems like a tall order.  Now, admittedly the RCR did have a lot of inefficient use of space in it, with some big graphics and full-page pictures that could easily be trimmed.  Even the OCR was 318 pages though.  Putting everything in that we're expecting and getting it down to 288 pages is going to be a masterpiece of editing and writing (or a lot of stuff is going to be left for future suppliments and only barely touched on in the Saga Edition book).As for the minis-friendly part of the catalog entry, the minis game has been a big seller, so presumably WotC does want to sell the RPG at people who play the minis game but haven't played the RPG, so some tie-in as marketing the RPG as a more advanced or more complete Star Wars experienced instead of just being a minis combat game would be sound marketing.I do really hope you made a great new edition we are all going to love, and we can look back in March and just laugh at our worries.  As you're able to talk about it in more detail, I'm sure we'll have tons of questions for you on what's there, and why you made the changes you did.</blockquote>

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