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Why don't companies show people how to use their books?
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<blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2441471" data-attributes="member: 232"><p>d20 has been going strong for 5 years. We have thousands of books covering a wide variety of areas and a wide variety of styles. But the one thing most of the books fauil to do in my mind is show people how to use them. They just come out with new classes, new rules, new settings, new everything. But no new ways to use them with the old. Now, I imagine many of don't need to be shown. We have been gaming for 20 years and we have a lot of experience with adding new things to our games. But there are plenty of gamers that don't have that knowledge and do not have that experience. I see threads here that seem to indicate a DM or player got in over their head with the options, the rules. They don't know how to really use it and not get into trouble. Or even worse they can use it, but there is a better way that they are not seeing. Writers have a unique insight into their works and I'd like to hear mor efrom them about their works. So many times it seems a month goes by and the latest releases are already forgotten about as companies move on.</p><p></p><p>THis is not a rant, just an observation on something I think the game could benifit by. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crothian, post: 2441471, member: 232"] d20 has been going strong for 5 years. We have thousands of books covering a wide variety of areas and a wide variety of styles. But the one thing most of the books fauil to do in my mind is show people how to use them. They just come out with new classes, new rules, new settings, new everything. But no new ways to use them with the old. Now, I imagine many of don't need to be shown. We have been gaming for 20 years and we have a lot of experience with adding new things to our games. But there are plenty of gamers that don't have that knowledge and do not have that experience. I see threads here that seem to indicate a DM or player got in over their head with the options, the rules. They don't know how to really use it and not get into trouble. Or even worse they can use it, but there is a better way that they are not seeing. Writers have a unique insight into their works and I'd like to hear mor efrom them about their works. So many times it seems a month goes by and the latest releases are already forgotten about as companies move on. THis is not a rant, just an observation on something I think the game could benifit by. :cool: [/QUOTE]
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