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[gothwalk]

Hm. Wizards of the Coast are putting out revised core rulebooks for D&D in 2003. Read about it here. It's apparently definitely not a fourth edition, but they're revising classes for balance, adjusting spell lists, changing some of the pricing rules around magical items, and doing some other minor stuff.

And while D&D is my all-time favourite game, there comes a time when I decide that I've given Wizards enough money. I think instead of buying the new PHB, I'm going to buy Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed. And instead of the new DMG, I'll be getting, say, d20 Traveller. I'll be spending the same amount of money - it's just not going to Wizards.

I can't help but wonder what they're aiming at here. If they want to improve the game, then they should release a web expansion, like they've done for the various splatbooks. If they want to make more money, they should release new material, not revised versions of old material. This seems to fall between the two, and I don't think people are going to go out and replace their books, only two years after they bought them. If I'm buying books for someone else, sure, I'll buy the new ones - indeed, I won't have much option - but I'd buy the old ones too, were they still in print. No extra sales, y'know?

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[podling]

Well yeah, it's all in seach of cash. I mean, the fact is that there are many things that could be improved, changed, made better, whatever in the game. To release another completely new edition so soon seems vaguely questionable though. As in, why didn't they make these improvements before? Web expansions would make the most sense, but since when did they ever do anything that really made sense?

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[(Anonymous)]

I think it is a ploy to pre-empt Monte's Arcana Unearthed and gain dollars that would otherwise go to Malhavoc.