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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1175961" data-attributes="member: 812"><p>People sure are funny.</p><p></p><p>Raise your hand if you think it's smarter to keep pumping out errata or if at some point you take all the errata and fixes and new ideas that have come along, and you create a new package so that when people buy your rules, they get the rules as they actually are now, instead of having to consult pages of errata in order to figure out what the rules are?</p><p></p><p>Not to mention if you happen to notice that a large portion of your customers don't ever seem to understand a certain ruleset without lots of explanation and examples (coughattacksofopportunitycough), maybe you ought to consider rewriting the rules so that, again, when somebody plunks down their hard-earned dollars for a rulebook, they get rules that they can understand the FIRST time they read them?</p><p></p><p>The 3.5 revisions weren't done for US, the people who already had 3.0. Sure, Wizards is more than happy if we'll buy the rulebooks, but they provided the SRD explicitly so we didn't have to. The revisions were done so that when NEW people buy the rulebooks, they get a better game. Better presentation, better rules, better tea bag, better tea.</p><p></p><p>Now this is entirely a different question from, "Has everything Wizards puts out started to suck?" I will say that I found BoVD and Ghostwalk both good fun books. Dungeon keeps on being great value. Dragon I don't buy much but it looks like it'd be as valuable to DMs at a certain stage in their experience as it was to me 200 issues ago. Dragon taught me a lot about DMing and the fact that it seems to be still teaching the same lessons only means that it's no longer very useful to me -- but there's lots of newer DMs who probably find it very helpful indeed.</p><p></p><p>Blah blah blah. My hat of 5.3 knows bounds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 1175961, member: 812"] People sure are funny. Raise your hand if you think it's smarter to keep pumping out errata or if at some point you take all the errata and fixes and new ideas that have come along, and you create a new package so that when people buy your rules, they get the rules as they actually are now, instead of having to consult pages of errata in order to figure out what the rules are? Not to mention if you happen to notice that a large portion of your customers don't ever seem to understand a certain ruleset without lots of explanation and examples (coughattacksofopportunitycough), maybe you ought to consider rewriting the rules so that, again, when somebody plunks down their hard-earned dollars for a rulebook, they get rules that they can understand the FIRST time they read them? The 3.5 revisions weren't done for US, the people who already had 3.0. Sure, Wizards is more than happy if we'll buy the rulebooks, but they provided the SRD explicitly so we didn't have to. The revisions were done so that when NEW people buy the rulebooks, they get a better game. Better presentation, better rules, better tea bag, better tea. Now this is entirely a different question from, "Has everything Wizards puts out started to suck?" I will say that I found BoVD and Ghostwalk both good fun books. Dungeon keeps on being great value. Dragon I don't buy much but it looks like it'd be as valuable to DMs at a certain stage in their experience as it was to me 200 issues ago. Dragon taught me a lot about DMing and the fact that it seems to be still teaching the same lessons only means that it's no longer very useful to me -- but there's lots of newer DMs who probably find it very helpful indeed. Blah blah blah. My hat of 5.3 knows bounds. [/QUOTE]
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