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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 200133" data-attributes="member: 633">Frostmarrow, the campaign settings' crunchy bits and the splatbooks serve the purpose of giving new options.Printing a new player's handbook would be illogical, because it would practically be another different d20 game, incompatible with 100% of the material out there. The closest thing I think would be viable would be an &quot;Unearthed Arcana 3e&quot; (minus the balance issues, that is). And even then, I don't see what's wrong with the splatbooks. They are already doing exactly what you ask, plus I don't have to buy them all at once.Anyway... there is no way that WotC ever prints something designed to substitute the PHB. It would be financially counterproductive (the PHB is the largest D&amp;D source of revenue), create massive confusion, and be largely useless since they can just print more splatbooks which would be cheaper, would not damage the sales of PHBs, would provide exactly the same content, and would not confuse the players.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 200133, member: 633"] Frostmarrow, the campaign settings' crunchy bits and the splatbooks serve the purpose of giving new options. Printing a new player's handbook would be illogical, because it would practically be another different d20 game, incompatible with 100% of the material out there. The closest thing I think would be viable would be an "Unearthed Arcana 3e" (minus the balance issues, that is). And even then, I don't see what's wrong with the splatbooks. They are already doing exactly what you ask, plus I don't have to buy them all at once. Anyway... there is no way that WotC ever prints something designed to substitute the PHB. It would be financially counterproductive (the PHB is the largest D&D source of revenue), create massive confusion, and be largely useless since they can just print more splatbooks which would be cheaper, would not damage the sales of PHBs, would provide exactly the same content, and would not confuse the players. [/QUOTE]

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