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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geron Raveneye" data-source="post: 3722364" data-attributes="member: 2268">Well, you see..it started with AD&D 2e and all those "Complete..." handbooks, offering lots of additional options (e.g. kits) to players and DMs to customize certain aspects of their characters.Then, when 3E came out, one thing that followed pretty soon after the "Core Three" were the class splatbooks. All 5 of them. So basically, if you had bought the "Complete..." books during 2e, you bought that stuff again in a different guise, and all because the stuff from 2e was nearly incompatible with the new system.Then 3.5 came out...and guess what? Splatbooks again...first the ones that had already been out for 3.0, only updated and errata-ed. So if you wanted to stay up-to-date and on top of errata...you bought them AGAIN. And of course, after that, the market was saturated with splatbooks for races, more class splatbooks, environment splatbooks...and that doesn't take into account the tons of splatbooks that came out from 3rd party publishers.So now we get an updated edition, 4e, which, according to the ad blurbs, will be mostly incompatible with your old 3e stuff. And by now, we all know what makes money for WotC/Hasbro...more options for players. So the next thing on any potential list of books to be published is...splatbooks of some sort or another. Which will mean, essentially, that a lot of people, in order to stay on top of the new rules and options...will buy their old stuff all over again, in different guise.Maybe that's not what you were after, but it's how I interpret a lot of those complaints.</blockquote>

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