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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6447227" data-attributes="member: 37579">There are two problems with this. The first is that to get all three books out at the same time, they would have had to delayed all three books this past month instead of the DMG. Can you imagine the reaction from that?The second catch is based on the assumption they could "finish" the PHB and MM and just sit on them while working on the DMG, only fixing small errors. But people don't think like that. Especially game designers. It wouldn't just be the small errors but also the big ones. They'd come up with a really good idea for that option that wasn't quite perfect but was "good enough", and then that would need to be tested. They'd come up with a great new bit of lore for a monster, or a reference they had to include. And time that *would* be spent working on the DMG would be instead spent working on the other books. They'd encounter a balance problem during their games (such as the moon druid) and think "I bet we could tweak that a little more". Creative people have a hard time stopping. There's always, always more changes or revisions that could be made. So had they held back the PHB and MM either the DMG would be even more delayed or that book would be less polished.</blockquote>