WotC yanks the rug out

[Hand of Evil]

I am going for the 45th GENCON Anniversary printing myself...

** don't know if there is going to be one but it would be cool **

 

[mudbunny]

I'm sorry. I just have a real hard time getting worked up (much less all-caps worked up) over a specialty, small-print-run book being pushed back 3 months.

 

[the Jester]

WHAT THE HELL, WIZARDS. WHAT THE HELL.

How much more bitter would you be if they released it with misprints and bad binding? How much more invective would you hurl- "THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE PRINTED THIS TIL IT WAS READY, HOW COULD THEY GIVE ME AN INFERIOR PRODUCT???!!1!!ELEVENTYONE!!!"

Sheesh. This delay is a good thing.

 

[Enkhidu]

How much more bitter would you be if they released it with misprints and bad binding?

Nah. They'll do that when they re-release Unearthed Arcana.

 

[jonesy]

Nah. They'll do that when they re-release Unearthed Arcana.

They wouldn't even need to change anything. Very few books have had as many errors as the original print.

 

[Dausuul]

I wish I could XP people's XP comments, because this deserves it:

"That rug really tied the room together. Did it not?" --Wednesday Boy

 

[Agamon]

Forget the rug, every copy should come with Jump to Conclusions mat.

...oh wait, most gamers have one of those already.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

How much more bitter would you be if they released it with misprints and bad binding?

Nah. They'll do that when they re-release Unearthed Arcana.

I thought TSR did that intentionally so you could put those loose pages into page protecters in a three-ring binder more easily? No? Dangit!

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I'm sorry. I just have a real hard time getting worked up (much less all-caps worked up) over a specialty, small-print-run book being pushed back 3 months.

Yeah, I'm really not seeing the ZOMG!!! issue here either. Not knowing the original scheduled date, it wasn't until I read the second post that I realised what the OP was upset about.

Before then I assumed it was the price that was the issue (or possibly the page count). Considering this book isn't exactly new content I would see the delay as much less of an issue compared to a completely new book (and even then it wouldn't be a big deal for me).

Olaf the Stout

 

[Greylock]

I'm still wondering how a book company stays in business without releasing, you know, books. While printing issues are legitimate and a longtime problem regardless of publisher, I'm left feeling that WotC gave a pie-in-the-sky original release date just to keep their name and IP on the front pages.