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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 502275" data-attributes="member: 5724">We'll it could happen this way as well.....  They do invalidate all the stuff that their customers have already bought, because that stuff isn't generating any new revenue. They'll let the print runs run out of the "unrevised" books which will hopefully occur before the release of the "revised" books. They explain away this invalidation by saying "you can easily adapt it."  We'll i've easily adapted 1E to 3E.... The'd then re-release the same stuff that they've invalidated within 2 years of the revision, but add 25% more stuff and clarify the mistakes and oversights the original "revised" products had.I think this is possible, because it looks like they're already doing it with the new versions of the core books (the question here is a really just a matter of time, eventually they will invalidate their stuff because of 4E or some major 3E change).  Also, its important to remember that a lot of the stuff out there is not WotC stuff, its 3rd party, so their not only invalidating WotC stuff, but their also hitting the 3rd party people, their competators.  Its not a serious hit, but it will make itself felt.will it make people angry? yes... will those angry people still buy the stuff because its a hobby industry?  i don't know, but i'd vote yes, because people want to buy the new stuff that will come out and eventually they'll cave and buy the new books because all the new material coming out will only include "revised" book stuff, including all the 3rd party guys.But i bet these "revised" books will post as good, or better numbers, ast he original release did, when you consider the much lower cost of development/production.I'm interesting in hearing other's ideas..  I'll wait to hear more, but i'm of a suspicious nature.. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Personally i think its a blatant attempt to grab another 90$ by releasing clairifications that most of us are already using and adding stuff from products they've already put out in the splatbooks..  I'm of course, speculating.. but what is truly new in the books could have just been a supplement...They could have put all this "revised" stuff in one place on the web.. they could have put it all in one new book for 30$... they could have released the info as supplements.... joe b.</blockquote>

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