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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5692958" data-attributes="member: 40166">Making them hardcover was done because the softcover 3.0 books didn't sell that well, and apparently they got feedback that distributors and bookstores were prioritizing hardcovers (from 3rd parties) over softcovers.Power creep is hard. The new magical classes in the Complete books tended to be less powerful then the cleric and wizard in the core book, so I for one tend to think for a while before I play one of them. If a book has a lot of new content, and all of it is less powerful then the core options, people aren't going to be happy and probably aren't going to use it. (This may not be as true if they designed material as replacements for the core material instead of alternatives, but most of the Complete material didn't come across that way.) So you have to try and make options that are powerful enough that people will take them instead of core material, without making them so powerful that they are more powerful then the core material. It's a tough line to walk, and the Complete books had a lot of stuff that was distinctly underpowered, while having a few things that were overpowered.Flavor is another complex line to walk. Personally, I found the prestige classes in Complete Arcane to have a bit much flavor, making them hard to weave into a campaign. It perhaps would have been better if they felt like they came from one world where they all made sense.</blockquote>

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