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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dionysos" data-source="post: 4632125" data-attributes="member: 21540">In this thread, I pine for the creation of a non-existent product.See, I love D&D 4th edition. I won't go into all the reasons for it, and this is not an edition war thread. If you don't care for it, more power to you, but let's not have this thread get derailed.I also love the D&D Rules Cyclopedia. I absolutely adore its compact presentation, its simplicity and the completeness of its contents. The really awesome thing about it is that it provided, in its time, the possibility of a one-book shared experience for D&D. I don't know that this potential was ever realized because the version of the rules presented therein was perhaps a less-often utilized one (as it is a BECMI book that came out while AD&D was more commonly played).It seems to me that, if such a one-volume rulebook were created for 4e, there would be great potential for such a product. One thought is that it would make it possible to take just one D&D book to conventions (for example), and thus allow a disparate group of gamers to easily throw together a one-shot using just one shared volume.I think that, given the extremely user-friendly layout of the 4th edition rulebooks, the crunch contained therein could be distilled into one somewhat large volume. Pull out most of the art, almost all of the flavor text, all of the helpful essays in the DMG that contain no rules content, lower the font size and eliminate most whitespace, and I think you are most of the way there. I love the art and readability of the 4e books, so a hypothetical trimmed-down Rules Cyclopedia would supplement and not replace the core 3 books for me.I am speaking of just the core three rulebooks, BTW. This would be for travelling and for quick-and-dirty campaigns that don't use a lot of supplemental material.I would love it if such a product could  be made.So, my questions:I know nothing of the GSL and I am not involved in publishing. Could such a product be made by a non-WOTC company? If so, please do so! I know my group would jump right on top of this.Also, would you have any interest in such a product? If so, why? If not, why not? If your answer is, 'I wouldn't want this because D&D 4e sucks' I would appreciate it if that sentiment were kept out of this thread. I have no problem with people not liking my game of choice, but that is not what I am inquiring about here.Amongst fans and players of D&D 4e, who would like to have a Rules Cyclopedia released? What are the possible means for that to be accomplished? Thanks.-Dio</blockquote>

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