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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6070062" data-attributes="member: 22424">Well, except that it is impossible, practically speaking, to release it in a complete form. The problem is that D&amp;D has both a very deep level range and a very large breadth of material. So, while you're probably right that releasing only levels 1-10 initially means that you lose every group playing at higher than 10th level, the same is also true if you exclude specific races, classes, etc etc.If the game supports levels 1-20, the trade-off is probably that it can support maybe 8 races and a dozen classes. Drop to levels 1-10, and you can probably double that. Either way, you lose all the groups playing level 10+, or all the groups currently with a Half-orc, or all the groups currently playing with a Dragonborn. You cannot have all three (well, strictly speaking you can - you just have to sacrifice groups with an Elven character).The Core Rulebooks of the game will always, necessarily be 'incomplete' - at least in the sense that they can never support everything that has been published for the game in near-40 years. WotC have to choose where to draw the lines.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6070062, member: 22424"] Well, except that it is [i]impossible[/i], practically speaking, to release it in a complete form. The problem is that D&D has both a very deep level range and a very large breadth of material. So, while you're probably right that releasing only levels 1-10 initially means that you lose every group playing at higher than 10th level, the same is also true if you exclude specific races, classes, etc etc. If the game supports levels 1-20, the trade-off is probably that it can support maybe 8 races and a dozen classes. Drop to levels 1-10, and you can probably double that. Either way, you lose all the groups playing level 10+, or all the groups currently with a Half-orc, or all the groups currently playing with a Dragonborn. You cannot have all three (well, strictly speaking you can - you just have to sacrifice groups with an Elven character). The Core Rulebooks of the game will [i]always[/i], necessarily be 'incomplete' - at least in the sense that they can never support everything that has been published for the game in near-40 years. WotC [I]have[/I] to choose where to draw the lines. [/QUOTE]

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