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<blockquote data-quote="BASHMAN" data-source="post: 3855502" data-attributes="member: 8277">QFT.&nbsp; I think calling Races &amp; Classes a preview of 4e was less than honest, since there will be no mechanical information at all therein (which they are now admitting).&nbsp; People may have been expecting the &quot;countdown to 3e&quot; type of mechanical info in such a document-- which would have made it worth buying to some who really wanted to know the mechanics.&nbsp; Now they say it will be essentially that 30 years of D&amp;D book again-- with nice art, and a bunch of whistful, fluff-filled articles, and probably a lot by the lady that wrote <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drcw/20071010&amp;pf=true" target="_blank">this</a>&nbsp; unfortunately.&nbsp; It will be bought by the same people who bought the 30 years of D&amp;D-- sentimental collectors who gladly buy anything made by WotC.&nbsp;&nbsp; At least they have dropped the act, and are being honest about what the book is... now.&nbsp; Nobody is going to buy this thinking that it explains how fighters in 4e are different from fighters in 3.x or learn what the class abilities of the warlord are.&nbsp; They know it will have pictures of fighters and warlords, and articles about what people were feeling/thinking when they wrote the rules, and about brownies and 3rd grade teachers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BASHMAN, post: 3855502, member: 8277"] QFT. I think calling Races & Classes a preview of 4e was less than honest, since there will be no mechanical information at all therein (which they are now admitting). People may have been expecting the "countdown to 3e" type of mechanical info in such a document-- which would have made it worth buying to some who really wanted to know the mechanics. Now they say it will be essentially that 30 years of D&D book again-- with nice art, and a bunch of whistful, fluff-filled articles, and probably a lot by the lady that wrote [URL=http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drcw/20071010&pf=true]this[/URL] unfortunately. It will be bought by the same people who bought the 30 years of D&D-- sentimental collectors who gladly buy anything made by WotC. At least they have dropped the act, and are being honest about what the book is... now. Nobody is going to buy this thinking that it explains how fighters in 4e are different from fighters in 3.x or learn what the class abilities of the warlord are. They know it will have pictures of fighters and warlords, and articles about what people were feeling/thinking when they wrote the rules, and about brownies and 3rd grade teachers. [/QUOTE]

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