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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 815493" data-attributes="member: 10095">Hi! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Alright, let's see.And I think that is unreasonable. Most books only assume that you possess the three core books, with the exception of campaign settings, which assume you have the core campaign setting book as well.Plus, you already have an entire web feature dedicated to it, just like psionics. They give you FREE epic-level material on the site, which is why they don't want to or need to put it in books.I never said you couldn't. I make suggestions all the time. If you took a look at my inbox and outbox, you'd see tons of emails to and from developers, designers, and editors, bouncing ideas... most of them don't get through, but that doesn't stop me."Most people?" I'm sorry, but the people on this forum do not comprise even 1/8th of the D&D gamers on the internet alone. And gamers with access to the internet make up a little over half the gaming population. If you're going to say "most people" be a little more specific... most people in this thread may agree with you, but most of the players in the world don't.Yes, I am. When you print a book, you print it in increments of 16 or 32 pages. That is why all page counts are multiples of 16 (FRCS is 320 pages, which is 20 16-page modules). So, they'd have to add an additional 16 pages, or cut 4 pages of material that can be useful to anyone (as it does not require the ELH). Then, they have to pay a developer additional to write text for those pages, pay a designer more to spend more time making sure nothing contradicts itself, and pay an editor more to take more time to edit the document. Then you have additional art to add, R&D to have check it out for rules consistency. All of these factors can also increase the cover price of the book, which will, of course, anger gamers even further.There's a lot more to adding those four pages than you think. You want Archfiends... get the BoVD. You want epic level monsters... get the ELH and check out the web supplements. Or make your own.No, they are not going to use all of them. Hell, I don't even use all the monsters from the Monster Manual. However, there is a difference between having a monster that someone MIGHT not use, and having a monster that someone CANNOT use because it would require an additional supplement.As they have stated many times before, especially when 3rd Edition first came out. Supplements will assume you have the PH, DMG, and MM. Nothing more.TSR had that problem, requiring a slew of sourcebooks to use others.Actually, it was a pinkie on SHIFT.Yes, he is an utter fool. He's an utter fool who had one interest in the Races of Faerun book: Elven High Mage. However, he despises the ELH and the way it handles those things, and thus has no use for the book.Is that your final answer?</blockquote>

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