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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8803525" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>I'm going to step lightly here, because I don't want to seem like this is edition warring.</p><p></p><p>The book-a-month publishing schedule of the 3ed, 3.5ed and 4e eras required many books in the pipeline at once, from a lot of freelance talent oversaw by the in-house talent. Material in different books in the pipeline wasn't playtested against other things in the pipeline, leading to some rather powerful combos. The high rate of publishing lead to more chances for power creep. While there was a lot of great material, there was also a lot of average material, and some that didn't rate that high. It lead to a lot of bloat. Finally new material would very rarely get any ongoing support. For example, if a new spell came out it would rarely be put on spell lists from classes/prestige in splat books.</p><p></p><p>For my personal tastes, I like the slower publishing rate of 5e. I believe it has also been a commercial success - each book takes the same design&development, editing&layout, art, publishing, distribution costs, but the 5e books have bee better sellers for the same outlay. (And it might even be less-per-unit outlay if they could do larger print runs.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8803525, member: 20564"] I'm going to step lightly here, because I don't want to seem like this is edition warring. The book-a-month publishing schedule of the 3ed, 3.5ed and 4e eras required many books in the pipeline at once, from a lot of freelance talent oversaw by the in-house talent. Material in different books in the pipeline wasn't playtested against other things in the pipeline, leading to some rather powerful combos. The high rate of publishing lead to more chances for power creep. While there was a lot of great material, there was also a lot of average material, and some that didn't rate that high. It lead to a lot of bloat. Finally new material would very rarely get any ongoing support. For example, if a new spell came out it would rarely be put on spell lists from classes/prestige in splat books. For my personal tastes, I like the slower publishing rate of 5e. I believe it has also been a commercial success - each book takes the same design&development, editing&layout, art, publishing, distribution costs, but the 5e books have bee better sellers for the same outlay. (And it might even be less-per-unit outlay if they could do larger print runs.) [/QUOTE]
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