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splatbook counts: 3.5E vs. 4E

Started by ggroy, August 15, 2009, 07:07:01 PM

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ggroy

#15
August 18, 2009, 01:02:04 AM
Quote from: Mistwell;321620Simply put, WOTC put out a metric crapload of 3.x books, and I think you're trying to fudge the numbers to exclude a bunch to try and make a point which simply isn't as strong if you actually do it straight without the fudging.

You can believe whatever you want.  It's a free world.

ggroy

#16
August 18, 2009, 01:03:44 AM
Note the title of the thread.  3E was not mentioned at all.

Benoist

#17
August 18, 2009, 01:10:01 AM
Regardless of numbers, I personally think that, give or take a handfull of tomes here and there, it's the same turnout in practice. The marketing changed, but the actual milking is the same. There's no passion for the product beyond R&D (assuming the whole department likes the game, which I don't really think is the case). It's just crap.

IMHO and all that, of course. It's all just opinion.

ggroy

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August 18, 2009, 01:26:02 AM Last Edit: August 18, 2009, 11:41:44 AM by ggroy
Quote from: Benoist;321626Regardless of numbers, I personally think that, give or take a handfull of tomes here and there, it's the same turnout in practice. The marketing changed, but the actual milking is the same. There's no passion for the product beyond R&D (assuming the whole department likes the game, which I don't really think is the case). It's just crap.

Probably a better statistic would be the rate of WotC D&D splatbooks + modules being released per year.

2000:  9
2001:  17
2002:  12
2003:  15
2004:  20
2005:  23
2006:  27
2007:  26
2008:  18
2009:  20
2010:  18 (announced so far)

ggroy

#19
August 18, 2009, 11:45:45 AM Last Edit: August 18, 2009, 11:48:59 AM by ggroy
Looks like WotC is at the "status quo" rate of around 20+ splats and modules being produced per year.  Not too surprising for the most part.

The original post was attempting to get a measure on the number of D&D books being produced over a period of time, and whether 4E was any different than the previous edition.  I suppose the rate of D&D books being produced per year would have been a better statistic to examine, than just the total numbers of hardcover WotC splatbooks being produced for the 3.5E and 4E editions.

Pseudoephedrine

#20
August 18, 2009, 12:46:41 PM
Quote from: Piestrio;321474The thing that annoys me is not so much the volume of supplements but the interconnectedness.  

If I wanted to play eberron I'd need:

PHB1
DMG1
MM1
Eberron player's guide
Eberron Campaign guide

PHB2 for primal power and eberron races
MM2 for eberron specific monsters

What was in third edition a 4 book game turned into a 7 book game.

Darksun will undoubtedly use PHB3 and MM3. Will it also need primal classes? PHB2. etc...

So Darksun is a 9 book game,

What about 2011? 2015?

It really discourages me from buying into 4th ed. Even the X Power books reference other books. Arcane Power FREX has material useless unless you own the Forgotten Realms books!

Piestrio

Get one guy to buy access to the character builder instead of all those books, and print off everyone's powers. That way you're spending a fraction of the money, since the only thing you really need is the DMG and MM (maybe MM2, which is an excellent book anyhow).
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