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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6504079" data-attributes="member: 22424">I don't have an objection to splatbooks as a class, but the examples from the history of D&D are very poor. In 2nd Ed, the contrast between "The Complete Priest's Handbook" and "The Complete Book of Elves" is striking - the former is one of very few books ever to lower the power level of the game, while the latter is a byword for brokenness.In 3e, the very first splatbook, "Sword & Fist" showed a remarkable lack of playtesting - to the point where one of the Prestige Classes had no BAB progression listed! (Infamously, WotC then tried to claim that was deliberate, until they corrected it with errata of course.)But a further objection to the 3e/3.5e splatbooks came in the form of the myriad Prestige Classes they added to the game. PrCs had been introduced as a world-building tool for the DM, with the notion that each PrC would have an organisation behind it, and a specific place in the world set aside for it. And then they published hundreds of the things, and made mock of that notion.(I can't comment on the 4e splatbooks as I never played 4e much. Except to note that they were almost completely redundant - almost the entire content was found in DDI.)There's an opportunity cost associated with it. Even when it was at the height of 3e, WotC could only produce one or two books a month. Their bandwidth is now drastically reduced.So if they produce a splatbook, that means they're not producing something else. And, generally, I would prefer that "something else".</blockquote>

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