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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3475384" data-attributes="member: 35788">I realize this is exageration - and I'm not claiming that the fighter in a core-only game is the most powerful character - but I still believe that feat-every-other-level is not chump change.Personally, I'd rather deal with dealing with the "overpoweredness" of arcanists/clerics/druids rather than add a book that brings fighters up to their level.  a high level wizard is crazy powerful ... to powerful for my taste.  But of course, that is just my opinion.  Others are welcome to flavor their game differently.In regard to the amount of questions, however ...I suspect that the answer lies in two things that have already been said: Power Creep and relative newness of the books.I think I remember a thread here a few months ago that explained that WotC primary income comes within 1-4 months after the release date of a book.  After that point there are still sales, but they have decreased dramatically.  That implies that people are (surprise surprise! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ) buying the books reasonably close to when they are released.  So, I would expect the questions to come during that time as well.However, I think there is a good bit of truth in the power creep answer as well.  [And I'm with Nail on this one.  Every thread I've seen on ToB:Bo9S ultimately comes down to "yeah, well, the fighter needed an upgrade to compete with arcanists anyway."  That is power creep.]  Chances are that when a new product comes out and there is a question that arises - but none of the possible readings are broken - the gamers are likely to say "We'll choose ____ reading and we're okay with that."  But when reading a new rule where a question comes up and one or more of the possible readings provide something that seems quite powerful - the gamers (or more likely the DM) are going to get an official ruling.  That way, they can make sure that they accept or reject a powerful ruling knowing designer's inent (or as close to that as the Sage can get, I suppose).</blockquote>

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