I'm glad they're kind of trimming down the whole edition, with losses to come there must be gains to earn.
I can barely find anyone playing D&D in Taiwan (Or I'm just not looking hard enough), not to mention to find a game store with fully Traditional Chinese translated Dungeons and Dragons set, whenever I mentioned of D&D people just turn away. Expenses and costs aside, I'd love to dedicate myself to PnP D&D if enough are with me (Surely I'm not going to bring around my Chinese handbooks and character sheets to a English campaign?).
Even on the official Taiwanese Wizard of the Coast site itself is outdated by almost 9 months, (Come to the 2009 March 21st Game Day: Player's Hand Book II, try out the 4th edition!!!)
All because it is too complex and it is in a foreign language. (And I'm certain that's the case in somewhere else, too)
I hope they would make it easy enough to 'populate' D&D in every corner of the world then re-complex it like it once was.
[/end of random thought about the debate at hand]
And yea, as Jarno stated, bards should be cut down and let rogues do the performing... I like that idea
