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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dm4hire" data-source="post: 4073056" data-attributes="member: 14848">Ah! A true return to the old days of D&D.  WotC is definitely wanting to take us back to the good old days where TSR came out with way too many products in the hope that someone would buy at least a few of them to offset the loss of money the game seemed to be having.  I am assuming that the next step will be to release publishing dates then delay the product for several months only to release it without any warning and act as if it came out on time.The U.S. is facing a recession to the point our government has to give us an advance on next years tax return to try to stave off the impending doom.  So what's the best answer to help fight that off but to create more products that most people can no longer afford.  I have abandoned my old ways of must own every book and pretty much plan on sticking to only the core books.  If WotC really wants to make money flooding the market with excess D&D books is not the way to do it.  What they really need to do is develop Modern d20 and a couple of other games that really grab our attention besides D&D and start putting out products for each using a focus like White Wolf where you release 5-6 titles a year for each.  Oh wait, Modern is supposedly under development for next year or 2010.I have been playing D&D for over 20 years and will keep playing it.  They have my money and will keep getting it to some extent, but they really need to tone down the "pick a title and make X number of variations of it" approach as it will turn the new players off as well as old a like.  I've actually seen people stare at D&D asking why there are so many books and no matter how you try to tell them all the books aren't necessary you can tell they are still over whelmed by it all.  Then try to answer that, especially when they ask about playing a certain class or race and you have to tell them they need more than two books because the stuff they want isn't in just one book.  And try that when it's a 12 year old kid trying to convince his father/mother that she should buy all these books right there on the spot; you end up feeling for the kid as well as the parent.I hope WotC wakes up and starts putting as much into a book as possible.  If they want to do bulk dispersement of book then keep up with the trend of modules and mini campaigns as they've been doing.  That idea makes more sense, but then it only sells to a small majority and they are trying to get D&D books to be something the majority wants to buy.  So we'll see rehashed titles, variations of said titles, and so on throughout the course of 4th ed as we've seen in past editions, and most of us will line up and buy it again because we liked it the last time or we have to be completest in what we own.  My recommendation is take a number and get behind me.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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