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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 4074772" data-attributes="member: 1465">For most of the people who might ever play a specific RPG, the PHB is the only book they'll ever buy and use.The PHB has the biggest effect on attracting people playing a certain RPG. Skip a popular character concept, and you'll miss most of its fan. They will lose someone for not having the Druid in the PHB, but probably not as many as to make it a considerable loss. But if they had done the same reasoning on the Wizard (let's do it 1 year later to make it better) I'm sure the loss of players would have been pretty significant.If you just think of people who already are D&amp;D fans like yourself, or the people who you see in this forum, then having Bards &amp; Druids 1 year later is just a nuisance at worst, but not a win/lose situation to make you choose to buy 4e or not.But you have to consider that there are a lot of people who play RPG, and MIGHT, but not necessarily WILL, try D&amp;D 4e. Those are exactly the kind of people which can be turned down by not seeing the Druid in the PHB. It doesn't matter at all to them whether WotC keeps saying &quot;don't worry, PHB2 is core too&quot;, all it matter is how many books they will need to buy to even TRY playing something they will potentially like.Try to picture yourself in the same situation: you already play D&amp;D, and you hear there's a new cool RPG on the market. However, to play your favourite character (whatever it is, but something you consider BASIC), you need to buy 2 or 3 books instead of 1. If you already play another game successfully, having to spend 70$ or 100$ rather than 35$ CAN make a difference to many people, which might simply not switch at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 4074772, member: 1465"] For most of the people who might ever play a specific RPG, the PHB is the only book they'll ever buy and use. The PHB has the biggest effect on attracting people playing a certain RPG. Skip a popular character concept, and you'll miss most of its fan. They will lose someone for not having the Druid in the PHB, but probably not as many as to make it a considerable loss. But if they had done the same reasoning on the Wizard (let's do it 1 year later to make it better) I'm sure the loss of players would have been pretty significant. If you just think of people who already are D&D fans like yourself, or the people who you see in this forum, then having Bards & Druids 1 year later is just a nuisance at worst, but not a win/lose situation to make you choose to buy 4e or not. But you have to consider that there are a lot of people who play RPG, and MIGHT, but not necessarily WILL, try D&D 4e. Those are exactly the kind of people which can be turned down by not seeing the Druid in the PHB. It doesn't matter at all to them whether WotC keeps saying "don't worry, PHB2 is core too", all it matter is how many books they will need to buy to even TRY playing something they will potentially like. Try to picture yourself in the same situation: you already play D&D, and you hear there's a new cool RPG on the market. However, to play your favourite character (whatever it is, but something you consider BASIC), you need to buy 2 or 3 books instead of 1. If you already play another game successfully, having to spend 70$ or 100$ rather than 35$ CAN make a difference to many people, which might simply not switch at all. [/QUOTE]

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