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WotC has a milking machine now (Draconomicon I)
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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 4072757" data-attributes="member: 2518"><p>While in 3E WotC milked the cash cow still by hand (hard and tirelessly working hands) they seem to have upgraded to a high powered automatic milking machine now. At least thats the only explanation I have fore splitting up the Draconomicon into 2 or more books.</p><p></p><p>The 3rd edition Draconomicon was a very good book with a good mix of art, fluff and crunch although you might argue that the sample dragons were unnecessary and could have been replaced with more content. </p><p>In 4E WotC splits the concept of the Draconimicon into several books, each with a $40 price tag. You have Draconomicon I for chromatic dragons, and probably Draconomicon II for metallics. After that there will maybe come Draconomicon III Gem Dragons, Draconomicon IV Everything else Dragons and Draconomicon V Everything else we left out in the previous book Dragons.</p><p></p><p>This doesn't look like a good strategy to me considering that a big part of the players seem to suffer from dragon fatigue after the for the most part poorly written Races of Dragon and Dragon Magic so I don't think that this spread of Draconomicons will make them interested in dragons again.</p><p>Also I wonder what they want to write in all those books? Dragons are streamlined so there is not much place to add hundreds of abilities into them again (but maybe the Draconomicons will be written to counter this lack of abilities dragon will have in the MM?).</p><p>Also in 4E the metallic dragons apparently won't be so different from chromatic dragons anymore (at least no huge good/evil split) so I have no idea why they need their own book. I have the feeling that instead of one quality book like in 3E we get several poorly balanced and edited dragon splatbooks and this method of money milking was partially responsible for a lot of problems 3.5 Ed had so I am not exactly thrilled about this approach.</p><p>Also, after 2-3 Draconomicons dragons will likely again have hundreds of abilities and options too choose from negating any form of simplifying which was done. Not that I would complain about that but I am sure a lot of people will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Derren, post: 4072757, member: 2518"] While in 3E WotC milked the cash cow still by hand (hard and tirelessly working hands) they seem to have upgraded to a high powered automatic milking machine now. At least thats the only explanation I have fore splitting up the Draconomicon into 2 or more books. The 3rd edition Draconomicon was a very good book with a good mix of art, fluff and crunch although you might argue that the sample dragons were unnecessary and could have been replaced with more content. In 4E WotC splits the concept of the Draconimicon into several books, each with a $40 price tag. You have Draconomicon I for chromatic dragons, and probably Draconomicon II for metallics. After that there will maybe come Draconomicon III Gem Dragons, Draconomicon IV Everything else Dragons and Draconomicon V Everything else we left out in the previous book Dragons. This doesn't look like a good strategy to me considering that a big part of the players seem to suffer from dragon fatigue after the for the most part poorly written Races of Dragon and Dragon Magic so I don't think that this spread of Draconomicons will make them interested in dragons again. Also I wonder what they want to write in all those books? Dragons are streamlined so there is not much place to add hundreds of abilities into them again (but maybe the Draconomicons will be written to counter this lack of abilities dragon will have in the MM?). Also in 4E the metallic dragons apparently won't be so different from chromatic dragons anymore (at least no huge good/evil split) so I have no idea why they need their own book. I have the feeling that instead of one quality book like in 3E we get several poorly balanced and edited dragon splatbooks and this method of money milking was partially responsible for a lot of problems 3.5 Ed had so I am not exactly thrilled about this approach. Also, after 2-3 Draconomicons dragons will likely again have hundreds of abilities and options too choose from negating any form of simplifying which was done. Not that I would complain about that but I am sure a lot of people will. [/QUOTE]
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