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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 2747353" data-attributes="member: 30709">This seems to be your core gripe: "Why waste time publishing this, when they could do something that's more unique?"To which the obvious answer is, "They already have".  They recently did some far more eclectic books, like Weapons of Legacy and Magic of Incarnum, and I suspect that with the traditional D&D titles already covered for this edition we'll see more of this.  At no point does putting together all these old spells and selling them in a unified product mean they've had to "give up" on publishing Races Of The Tablefolk, or Heroes Of Romance, or Warlocks Of Eletroit or whatever other new trick it is they have planned.  Rather, after several of those books, we have here a more "core" book that all games can benefit from.In short, you seem to be complaining about a non-existant problem.  The existance of this useful, but not terribly innovative, book does not prevent a book that isn't "crap" from coming out.   ;-)  Sure, it takes up some R&D space, and some printing time, but considering these spells were already playtested and errata'd before, surely it's not as big a deal as another book?  Oh, yeah, I think complaining that thre's an "obligation" by a company to provide you with fixed spells is a bit unfair when, erm, there already are errata sheets up for some of these books, and for free.  Is it for all?  I don't know for sure, and the 3.0 ones may not have been converted before.  But if you've only just started playing the game and can't get the now out of print 3.0 books, that's quite a collection of "new" spells for ya!  :>Previous books have printed "fixed" copies of old spells before, so there's a precedent for them fixing things on the fly and not necesarilly issuing errata for the old printing: complaining about it for this book rather than the whole line.  Not that I'm saying that's a good thingL it can be irritating when there's multiple copies of a spell floating about yoru groups book collection: I suspect this is thinking from the Magic the Gathering team, who reprint old cards with changed text and the tournament players assume all older versions of this card "obviously" now play with this new text.  Easier said than done when two books with the same printing year have different versions of the same spell and the DM needs to work out which is the "fixed" one.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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