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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3986638" data-attributes="member: 710">Or maybe: How?The way I look at it, WotC could have given us core Necromancers, Illusionist, variant Dragons with spells, Druids, Gnomes and so on together with everything they have so far. In 2009. Without handing out any products in the meantime.But they decided otherwise. They knew they have a good grasp of their rules, and even if tinkering is still possible, they know it's no longer necessary, because it has achieved all design goals they wanted. So they put out the first books with the new rule system in form of the first 3 4E core rulebooks. After that, they continue working on all the classes, races and other material they want. They bring it out in Campaign Settings and the new Core rulebooks proposed each year.So basically, the alternatives for people that want Gnome Druids or Half Orc Barbarians were this: - Wait until 4E is released, but delay it to 2009. - Have 4E released now, but wait to 2009 for Gnomes and Druids. If you desperately, 100 % certainly will need the Gnome Druids and can't improvise anything around it (including pretending the exist but not actually using them), well, this means you have to wait to 2009. WotC misses out a few initial sales, but they won't lose them in the long run. Unless they figure out nobody likes 4E. Which means at least they can throw it away and return to 3.x for 2009, not having yet another year without sales.</blockquote>

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