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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadow" data-source="post: 655488" data-attributes="member: 2182">This quote from the Revised D&D FAQ really concerns me.  Although the official word is that the revisions will improve the game, the fact is that Wizards is just trying to milk more money out of us.  What really concerns me though is the quote about D&D being a "living game", which essentially means that we'll see a new revision, or at least rule changes every so often which will invalidate older books.  Methinks that Wizards is applying the same marketing strategy that made Magic (*shudder*) to D&D.  Think about it, every so often Wizards releases a new expansion set of Magic cards which introduces new rules.  At the same time they declare older cards invalid.  At one time I was a victim of card crack, too.  However, I was surprised to learn the large majority of the magic cards that I own from my Magic days are no longer considered legal.  In the same vein Wizards is releasing a new edition of D&D in less than four years after the release of 3e.  All the 3e stuff that I brought is no longer official after the release of 3.5e.  Sure Wizards talks about "backward compatibility" but what does it really mean?  Fixing spell like Harm/Haste with errata would be one thing, but screwing around with the classes is really going to change the game.  All the NPCs of the all the previous books were built with the original rules, not 3.5e rules.  Also the challenge ratings of the encounters in all the previous books were determined using the power of the original classes.  I see a "butterfly effect" happening here.  Little changes are going to make a big difference in the game.Although I don't "have" buy the revised books, a new books and modules are going to be based on the new rules, meaning that if I want to use anything published after the 3.5 is released I'm going to have to buy the revised rule books.Besides, even after they revise the rules how are we going to know that they aren't going to revise them further?  No set of rules is going to please every player, especially with such a diverse audience as D&D players (you just have to read the boards to see the differences in opinions regarding how the rules should be built to see this diversity).  Just as Wizards continually updates Magic and constantly revises the rules, Wizards is bound to update D&D again before long since it's a "living game".  Although 3e isn't perfect it's far better than any previous edition.  If it ain't broke, don't fix it!</blockquote>

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