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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5324802" data-attributes="member: 59082">Thanks for the info - some of that is not up on the Products page, last time I looked.I'm still not sure where they are going with this, however, and I would guess that they aren't entirely certain either, mainly because they don't know how well Essentials will do. Right, exactly. The same was true of 3.5E of course, but the key difference is that A) WotC has more control over what is produced for 4E, and B) 4E is less "top heavy" than 3.5E was, and thus may be able to handle more alterations.I do think that it would behoove them, however, to clarify a core rules set, even an SRD type document for 4E that would form the core of games to come. They could do away with editions and merely adjust and revise the core rules, with an infinite number of possible add-ons and options.To the last, yes, I agree. To the first, what was their reasoning for taking down all the old PDFs? I remember them not wanting to put new PDFs up because of piracy but that doesn't explain the old. If they wanted to discourage people from playing earlier versions of D&D I don't think taking down the PDFs would make much of a difference, considering the prevalence of used books out there, not to mention "free" torrents.WotC--and even more so TSR before them--has a pretty much undeniable history of bad PR. Why this is, I don't know. Maybe it has something to with snarky and/or awkward gamer social skills. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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