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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Igwilly" data-source="post: 7358147" data-attributes="member: 6801225">I’ll take a look at that, but it seems very weird. I haven’t seen this work in real-life at all: most new players who don’t want to get into splatbooks just say “I’ll stick with the basics” when I offer the books for them. And, honestly, I’m not sure I can trust the phrase “there’s a study that says…” by itself anymore, but that’s a whole other subject. Yes, I’ll take a time to view those studies, always a wise thing to do.For what I’ve seem, the book buyer usually buys a lot of books when s/he can (money problems sometimes get into that).Okay, first:The wealth of content present in 2e is one of the main reasons why I chose that edition instead of 1e. Its fans actually told about this amount of content in a positive light. 3.X was just broken from the start, and splatbooks follow on that, that’s why it’s not “the golden age”. As of 4e… Most well versed DMs aren’t afraid of allowing them: the core is strongly balanced, and splatbooks tend to follow that, so people felt safe – at list until mid-2010 or so.The thing is, and I’ve always had problems explaining that, I’m not against a slower release schedule by itself, if it means more playtesting and better quality of additional material. I’m patient, and I have means of remaking my entire gaming world without changing characters, so that’s fine.However, what I’ve seen is that, such people are not asking for slower release pace; they are asking for that extra content to be eliminated entirely. I’m not ok with, I want extra content, even if slower, but I want new classes, new races, new options for combat, magic, and so on. To say to me “the core is the only thing you’ll get” is a big letdown for me.Yes, I understand about third-party publishing, but that’s not a good answer by itself. DMs and players are much more reserved about content not made by WotC. “Official” content at least makes people more secure about reading it and so forth. However, I cannot imagine anyone around here to have that same level of receptiveness with “unofficial” content, if the DMs ever consider the suggestion.</blockquote>

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