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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4517858" data-attributes="member: 710">This is an idea I've heard before. The fanboy in me doesn't want to consider this possible, but I think it might be true.In a way (I am still a fanboy).If I look at the &quot;splats&quot; and other supplements I bought for 3E, most of the material found in them was never used by me. I really just didn't care for it most of the time. At least half of the PrCs are too specific to my taste or just plain underpowered, many feats to fiddly or too hard to qualify for, and the core book spells cover most of my needs when creating an interesting spellcaster. Most of the monsters were unused by me, since I build a lot of classed NPCs in my own campaigns and preferred that to monster-fighting.Yet I bought all this stuff that never was really useful to me.It might be too early to tell, but I tend to believe that the &quot;extra&quot; material that I can now find in supplements or the Dragon are worth it far more. And they are even easier to add into the game (gain a level, retrain a feat or power!) then ever before - by design.I don't know if WotC is intentionally reducing the &quot;content&quot; or if it's just intentionally building only well-tested and useful content, and thus needs more time to get it done. Maybe that is a little to idealistic.But it seems to me I thing the signal to noise ratio has gone better - but the volume might have gone down, too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 4517858, member: 710"] This is an idea I've heard before. The fanboy in me doesn't want to consider this possible, but I think it might be true. In a way (I am still a fanboy). If I look at the "splats" and other supplements I bought for 3E, most of the material found in them was never used by me. I really just didn't care for it most of the time. At least half of the PrCs are too specific to my taste or just plain underpowered, many feats to fiddly or too hard to qualify for, and the core book spells cover most of my needs when creating an interesting spellcaster. Most of the monsters were unused by me, since I build a lot of classed NPCs in my own campaigns and preferred that to monster-fighting. Yet I bought all this stuff that never was really useful to me. It might be too early to tell, but I tend to believe that the "extra" material that I can now find in supplements or the Dragon are worth it far more. And they are even easier to add into the game (gain a level, retrain a feat or power!) then ever before - by design. I don't know if WotC is intentionally reducing the "content" or if it's just intentionally building only well-tested and useful content, and thus needs more time to get it done. Maybe that is a little to idealistic. But it seems to me I thing the signal to noise ratio has gone better - but the volume might have gone down, too. [/QUOTE]

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