Kevin Andrew Murphy wrote:
For example, Pathfinder put the familiar rules in the main book rather than bumping them to another book to be published later as was the case with 4e (which really ticked me off as an old school wizard player I might add).
That was because the orginal intent was to not have familiars any longer. I would agree and apparently WotC does also that was a bad decision as they did add the familiar as you stated in a later publication. The addition of those rules was in direct repsonse to player feedback. Which shows that while yes publising another book (which did not cover just the familiar rule) did create additional revenue for WotC, it also showed that they were/are responding to customer feedback. And that is a good thing.
They have more recently, also due to player feedback created fighter and rogue builds that don't use daily exploits. Your method of running your game can also be said of WotC. If one of my players wants to run a class or a feature/power of a class, they must have the rules available at the table. Thus, I am not "required" to buy every book that is published, and they can pick the ones they want to use. That is the beauty of any growing and evolving RPG.
