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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3270084" data-attributes="member: 22424">The problem with this is that unless it is the version of the core rules, I don't think it would represent a financially viable product. If it were to be the version of the core rules, it would only be possible by omitting large amounts of material, in the form of spells, magic items and (in particular) monsters.I would strongly resist a move to reducing the core. Material that is not in the core rules is not fully supported by WotC (witness psionics), and in the particular case of monsters is problematic for the likes of Dungeon magazine. They have (correctly, IMO) adopted the policy that any non-core monster must have a full stat-block, which eats word-count to no good purpose. This leads to their high-level adventures necessarily reusing the same few evil outsiders over and over, which isn't ideal. Given that the best candidates for being dropped from a new 'Rules Cyclopedia' are the high CR monsters that don't see much use in most campaigns (which run in the low-mid levels), that just worsens the problem.That being the case, if anything I want the 4e MM to be twice the page count of the current book, and to include a lot more monsters (and particularly high-CR non-Outsiders).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 3270084, member: 22424"] The problem with this is that unless it is [I]the[/I] version of the core rules, I don't think it would represent a financially viable product. If it were to be [I]the[/I] version of the core rules, it would only be possible by omitting large amounts of material, in the form of spells, magic items and (in particular) monsters. I would strongly resist a move to reducing the core. Material that is not in the core rules is not fully supported by WotC (witness psionics), and in the particular case of monsters is problematic for the likes of Dungeon magazine. They have (correctly, IMO) adopted the policy that any non-core monster must have a full stat-block, which eats word-count to no good purpose. This leads to their high-level adventures necessarily reusing the same few evil outsiders over and over, which isn't ideal. Given that the best candidates for being dropped from a new 'Rules Cyclopedia' are the high CR monsters that don't see much use in most campaigns (which run in the low-mid levels), that just worsens the problem. That being the case, if anything I want the 4e MM to be twice the page count of the current book, and to include a lot more monsters (and particularly high-CR non-Outsiders). [/QUOTE]

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