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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3991829" data-attributes="member: 710">I guess we can speculate a lot here, but I think it's fair to assume that WotC does not have unlimited resources. They can design only a certain amount of products, and their goal for 4E isn't just to sell us 3 core rulebooks, but also to give us a lot of supplements and adventures in the months after its release. Maybe it would have been possible to design 4E and produce a few 3.x supplements, but this would have meant that the months after the 4E release, we would see less 4E products then WotC is planning now.I think the compilations might have been nice, but I doubt they'd sell anywhere close to previous supplements. The market is just smaller for them, since people that already have all the splat books are less interested in another compilation of them. Another revision of the rules is next to pointless if you're planning to come out with 4E. But they did something pretty close - the Rules Compendium. Aside from that, there is the issue of the designers and developers having to design for two games, that still share several similarities, but are distinctively different, too. I think that would be pretty awkward for them, too.</blockquote>