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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Puggins" data-source="post: 4073099" data-attributes="member: 12386">That is, of course, your opinion, and you're entitled to it, even if the majority of other buyers don't share it.  And all evidence points to the "don't share it" scenario, given the reviews it got.  In fact, it got awfully far up the "best books of 3e" competition here, don't you think?With all due respect, what case do you think is more likely?(a) WotC analyzed the sale data for 3e books and concluded that dragons are one of their most popular brand anchors, since every dragon-related book they produced sold extremely well.  In order to leverage that concept, they decide to expand it and introduce it early in the new edition.(b) WotC analyzed the sale data for 3e books and concluded that even though books involving dragons have sold less and less well, they're going to try to stuff another one down the consumer's throat, this time earlier in the edition than ever.Now I know you really, really, really want it to be (b).  But I don't think WotC is that stupid.  They make mistakes, certainly (*cough*Dreamblade*cough*Hecatomb*cough), but they seem pretty agile at correcting those mistakes.  Most importantly, they seem pretty good at not repeating mistakes.  So I think the more likely scenario is (a).</blockquote>