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The Double-Edged Sword: Is The New D&D Edition a Cash Grab in Disguise?
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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9302615" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>It is not exploitation in my opinion, because it contains dozens upon dozens of rules revisions and errata players have been asking for since the 5E14 book was released.</p><p></p><p>In 4E they released official rules revisions every few months, rebalancing powers and such until players had to print 10+ pages of documents on printer paper that included all the "fixes" WotC made. And people complained about that method. So when 5E came around they developed the idea of "Rulings, Not Rules" wherein they themselves would not revise any rules for balance or other reasons-- never print any changes except in the case of grammatical or numerical errors that fell under the identity of "errata" that would appear in additional printings of the book.</p><p></p><p>Instead... they gathered all of these complaints over the past decade and are now printing all of their revisions and balance passes at the same time in one single book so that people could just get them all at once and not have to buy the PHB each and every year had they constantly printed rules revisions in every printing run they did (alongside the errata.) But here we are... 10 years later... and people are still complaining that they are printing revisions to the rules or claiming it to be a "cash grab". Which is ridiculous. It would have been a "cash grab" had they revised everything in the book piecemeal and just changed bits and bobs within every single book print run, if they honestly thought people would continually buy them</p><p></p><p>In 2015... "Oh! WotC changed the rules of the Great Weapon Master feat like we've been saying all along that it was overpowered!" I better rebuy the PHB so I have it and my players can't complain!</p><p></p><p>In 2016... "Finally! WotC has fixed the Beast Master Ranger and no longer expects the player to use their Action to let their beast attack... the beast gets their own Attack action now! I better rebuy the PHB so I have it and my players can't complain!"</p><p></p><p>In 2017... "WotC cleaned up the Stealth rules and put them all into one section of the book! Everything is clearer now. I better rebuy the PHB so I have it and my players can't complain!"</p><p></p><p>This would be "cash grabs" on the part of WotC. What we are getting now is them NOT grabbing cash, because they've waited 10 years to do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9302615, member: 7006"] It is not exploitation in my opinion, because it contains dozens upon dozens of rules revisions and errata players have been asking for since the 5E14 book was released. In 4E they released official rules revisions every few months, rebalancing powers and such until players had to print 10+ pages of documents on printer paper that included all the "fixes" WotC made. And people complained about that method. So when 5E came around they developed the idea of "Rulings, Not Rules" wherein they themselves would not revise any rules for balance or other reasons-- never print any changes except in the case of grammatical or numerical errors that fell under the identity of "errata" that would appear in additional printings of the book. Instead... they gathered all of these complaints over the past decade and are now printing all of their revisions and balance passes at the same time in one single book so that people could just get them all at once and not have to buy the PHB each and every year had they constantly printed rules revisions in every printing run they did (alongside the errata.) But here we are... 10 years later... and people are still complaining that they are printing revisions to the rules or claiming it to be a "cash grab". Which is ridiculous. It would have been a "cash grab" had they revised everything in the book piecemeal and just changed bits and bobs within every single book print run, if they honestly thought people would continually buy them In 2015... "Oh! WotC changed the rules of the Great Weapon Master feat like we've been saying all along that it was overpowered!" I better rebuy the PHB so I have it and my players can't complain! In 2016... "Finally! WotC has fixed the Beast Master Ranger and no longer expects the player to use their Action to let their beast attack... the beast gets their own Attack action now! I better rebuy the PHB so I have it and my players can't complain!" In 2017... "WotC cleaned up the Stealth rules and put them all into one section of the book! Everything is clearer now. I better rebuy the PHB so I have it and my players can't complain!" This would be "cash grabs" on the part of WotC. What we are getting now is them NOT grabbing cash, because they've waited 10 years to do it. [/QUOTE]
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