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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 4682026" data-attributes="member: 3400">Indeed. This is mentioned directly in at least 2 offerings in the Dragon at the time, one by Gygax in 1985 and another by Steven Winter (an editor) in 1987. Cleaning up the multi-book bloat was a definite design goal, and not one that is, I believe, invalidated by the fact that 2nd edition eventually became the poster child for book bloat. That just says to me that there's a viable strategy in putting out material and circling back around every so often to rework into a new edition and that the original design goals for the 2nd edition core were't the same as the design goals for ongoing support.Notice that Gygax was involved back in 1985. Things turned out differently from his original expectations since he was gone from TSR by the time 2nd edition was released and there is no jester subclass for the bard, no savant, and no mystic. But the claim that 2nd edition was done to either spite him to cut him off simply doesn't bear up.</blockquote>