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So lets break this down:
It's not announced. If they were in the process of making a game, then it would make sense to announce it along with the show. Now, perhaps if the show does well, they might then produce a game. But this isnt likely as game production takes years. Lets be generous and...
In my current campaign the PCs are excavating a huge city underground that belonged to a race of Necromancers who came from the stars. Researchers call them the "Ur."
I buy the book.
I wish to use the book to run my game.
The book does not in fact reflect the rules of the game.
In order to use the rules as written, I have to use the online version.
The book no longer represents the game.
But that said, Ive stated my position. Moving along.
It's not hyperbolic to speak about my own experiences. I bought the 4th ed PHB when it dropped. Because they had an online client, they were regularly making rules changes that were not just small clarifications or grammar corrections, but functional changes. Magic Missile is the best example.
Let's avoid hyperbolic exaggeration of harms as a means to belittle concerns. No one is claiming that buying a bad produce is equal to dying in a plane crash. I know it's the internet. Try to read scale.
It's a pointless binary to have the only choices be 'Perfection" and "Anything else". There is no perfect. There is a professional product being released at a significant price point by a multi-billion dollar industry leader. I will save my forgiveness for sloppy products for the indie projects...
YMMV. I just am flashing back to the online client for 4th ed where they kept going back and revising things. Sometimes just correcting typos sure. Other times just full on rules changes. Made the books obsolete. I'm more than resigned to errors in a print product. Hell, I played White Wolf...
I went with 3.
I try not to listen to the sky is falling talk, but I am not burying my head in the sand either. For me, the breakpoint will be how the game is monetized. Let me buy my books and play the game.
Dungeons and Dragons was bigger than Gygax, bigger than TSR and will in the end be...