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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3779098" data-attributes="member: 28553">While the whole "core book series" concept sounds kinda cool, I don't really like the feeling that you're expected to buy each volume of of a given series as they come out in order to keep current.  I much prefer the idea of themed books which add whole new aspects to the game, which are absolutely assumed to be inappropriate for some (even most) campaigns.  So you can buy the psionics book or the incarnum book or the alchemy book or the spelljammer book, and get all the player and DM material to add these new angles to your game . . . but you don't ever feel like you're expected to get them.The core series, however, seem like great places to introduce more mainstream content: The "Hey guys; there are swift and immediate actions, now!" stuff, the "Complete..." series stuff, the "...Compendium" series stuff, "101 interesting roleplay angles for PCs"-type articles, etc.  I'd also like to see the DMG series supply a lot of Unearthed Arcana-style optional rules, because I freaking love that stuff.EDIT:  I'm not sure I want any kind of "Oriental Adventures" book, though.  I really, really loved my OA book back in the 1e days, but I think that if we actually find ourselves needing whole new classes to create samurai and ninja, then the 4e PHB has really screwed up its Fighter and Rogue classes.  "Samurai" ain't a class; it's a character concept.  And a katana is just a bastard sword.  I'm not really interested in the core books (or my own games) being "European" fantasy--whatever that is--so they ought to contain generic-enough content for people to be able to do Rokugan or whatever without much trouble.</blockquote>

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