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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maggan" data-source="post: 522014" data-attributes="member: 6616">I think you're just early Sorry. I just can't find your detailed wish list. I keep rereading your post, and all I can find is a wish to have errata more readily available. And a d20 update book.And that's about it. Maybe I'm tired.My point is that the errata is reasonably available already, and that the SRD will cover the stuff that a d20 update book would, but for free. And SJG offers errata for all their products? Not the last time I checked. Does anyone else in the business with close to 40 books released offer errata for all their books?Not that I know of, but I must admit my standing on this is mostly based on conjecture. I simply don't think that WotC is doing a bad job with this. I do realise that it is a marketing move. It is not done out of a genuine love for humanity, but to sell more D&D books, I fully realise that. And I have accepted it to be so.But that doesn't mean that the SRD doesn't exist. Nor does it mean that it is not downloadable for free. Nor that it won't be updated when the revised books are released.Actually I fail to see why any support WotC offers should be invalidated just because it is marketing. Why do you think SJG are offering GURPS Lite on their site?Yeah, marketing. I only know that gamers can be a pain in the ass. A lot of times I see people not asking for stuff, but demanding it. Which makes a difference for the company that is being adressed, because believe it or not, there are people behind those name. Real people. And I think requests are more likely to be listened to than demands.On a philosophical level, I don't think that the game will be changed. Sure, stuff will change, but it will still be D&D3e. It's the same game, slightly altered mechanics, and those changes I can probably easily identify through looking at the SRD and reading this board. That's good enough for me.But yeah, if for example the AC system suddenly is reverted back to the old system, if the classes all disappear, if spells are cast by blowing bubbles through your nose and the skills and feats system dissappear, then it would be a changed game. But somehow I don't think the revision will be on that scale at all. The basic mechanics will be the same. At least that's what I think, without having any proof to support it.  For what it's worth, I think you're passing your  judgment too early. The news came out, what, a week or so ago. The books are to be published during summer 2003. Nothing has changed, except that now we have definite knowledge that there will be revised rulebooks and that the revsions will be available for free, on the internet.As definite knowledge anyone outside WotC can have, that is. Is all this reason enough to switch to GURPS? Not for me. But for you. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Thanx for your reply!Maggan</blockquote>

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