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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9212367" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>Yeah, even leaving aside the adventures, which were of wildly variable quality, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_rulebooks#Advanced_Dungeons_&_Dragons_2nd_edition" target="_blank">this list of 2E rulebooks</a> really suggests that the quality level was all over the map, which I would say is comparable to the 3E era under WotC.</p><p></p><p>TSR went through 15 releases of loose leaf Monstrous Compendium appendices before they finally conceded it was a terrible idea, even if they weren't printing the monsters on the thinnest, most fragile pieces of paper they could find. And was it the Encyclopedia Magica or the Complete Wizard's Spell Compendium (each a multi-volume series of expensive deluxe books) that had the same copy and replace error repeated through every single volume without anyone at TSR catching it before the later volumes went out?</p><p></p><p>If anything, I'd say that 5E, even if individual products don't appeal (and I don't own 99% of the big adventure books or settings that WotC has produced for 5E, to be clear), are of much higher quality overall, most likely due to the fact that they're not trying to crank out books monthly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9212367, member: 11760"] Yeah, even leaving aside the adventures, which were of wildly variable quality, [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_rulebooks#Advanced_Dungeons_&_Dragons_2nd_edition']this list of 2E rulebooks[/URL] really suggests that the quality level was all over the map, which I would say is comparable to the 3E era under WotC. TSR went through 15 releases of loose leaf Monstrous Compendium appendices before they finally conceded it was a terrible idea, even if they weren't printing the monsters on the thinnest, most fragile pieces of paper they could find. And was it the Encyclopedia Magica or the Complete Wizard's Spell Compendium (each a multi-volume series of expensive deluxe books) that had the same copy and replace error repeated through every single volume without anyone at TSR catching it before the later volumes went out? If anything, I'd say that 5E, even if individual products don't appeal (and I don't own 99% of the big adventure books or settings that WotC has produced for 5E, to be clear), are of much higher quality overall, most likely due to the fact that they're not trying to crank out books monthly. [/QUOTE]
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