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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falling Icicle" data-source="post: 4077084" data-attributes="member: 17077">Wanting to be able to play a class or race that's been a part of D&D for many years or decades is selfish? Come on. I'd have much rather they included the Druid, Gnome, etc in the PHB and saved the more exotic races (Tieflings and Dragonborn) for a later supplement. And heck, even from a marketing standpoint this makes sense. If they really think that Druids, Monks, Gnomes etc will be much less popular than Tieflings, Dragonborn and Warlocks, less people will be interested in buying PHB2. And then, of course, there's the whole part about all the people they turned off from 4e entirely because they completely neglected to provide for those who actually *gasp* liked playing some of the things that were core in older editions, and are now SOL for possibly years. Two of the people in my gaming group are extremely reluctant to move to 4e because their favorite classes (Monk and Druid) won't be included. I doubt that mine is the only gaming group that will be running into such issues. Sure, those classes and races may be the smallest minority in popularity, but when you add all of them together, I'm sure you're looking at a pretty significant number of players. And of course, I also feel that this shouldn't be entirely about statistics and polls. Many of us have been playing this game for years, and are rightly pissed when WotC refuses to throw us a fricking bone.So this is a bad move on WotC's part for two big reasons, those they turned off because they feel neglected and snubbed, and also the fact that PHB2 and beyond will be less potentially popular by featuring what they admit are the least popular options. It would have been a much wiser thing to include all of the old core races and classes in the PHB, and saved the newer, supposedly more attractive options for later books. They wouldn't have pissed off any of their old customers, and there later books would entice a larger audience.</blockquote>

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