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<blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1814936" data-attributes="member: 813">I look at it from the potential buyer's point of view. As a buyer, I want as close to 100% of the book I am buying to be new material. Unless the book is a collection of OGC, I don't want to be buying the same OGC twice. Odds are if a topic grabs me, I'm going to buy more than one book about it.On the flip side, I'm a small time producer. Nobody wants to buy my stuff because I'm good at compilation. They want to read something new. Hopefully I am providing that.Larger books, with an eye toward being complete (like the above mentioned Grim Tales) are the place for reuse, or pulling together of best practices.And to address Conaill's point, I don't think d20 has matured sufficiently for all the best practices to come out. M&amp;M is a great example of d20 supers. But I don't think we should throw our hands and say &quot;That's it! That is the only d20 supers game we need.&quot; Who knows what home brew supers game is lurking that does things differently. Spell ritual rules were included in one of the first 3rd party books (the aptly named Relics and Rituals). Does that mean WotC was wasting space in UA with the Incantation rules? No. Neither is perfect. If anything we need more ritual rules systems so we can munge them all together into a &quot;best&quot; set of ritual rules.So, please don't complain about the lack of reuse and celebrate what is new and different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jmucchiello, post: 1814936, member: 813"] I look at it from the potential buyer's point of view. As a buyer, I want as close to 100% of the book I am buying to be new material. Unless the book is a collection of OGC, I don't want to be buying the same OGC twice. Odds are if a topic grabs me, I'm going to buy more than one book about it. On the flip side, I'm a small time producer. Nobody wants to buy my stuff because I'm good at compilation. They want to read something new. Hopefully I am providing that. Larger books, with an eye toward being complete (like the above mentioned Grim Tales) are the place for reuse, or pulling together of best practices. And to address Conaill's point, I don't think d20 has matured sufficiently for all the best practices to come out. M&M is a great example of d20 supers. But I don't think we should throw our hands and say "That's it! That is the only d20 supers game we need." Who knows what home brew supers game is lurking that does things differently. Spell ritual rules were included in one of the first 3rd party books (the aptly named Relics and Rituals). Does that mean WotC was wasting space in UA with the Incantation rules? No. Neither is perfect. If anything we need more ritual rules systems so we can munge them all together into a "best" set of ritual rules. So, please don't complain about the lack of reuse and celebrate what is new and different. [/QUOTE]

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