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This. And I'd add the new monster design parameters featured in MM3 and MV; a definite improvement and worth some praise.

Yeah, it's amazing how many people could turn a huge profit if they only had WotC's resources and WotC's IP and lived in a fantasy world where making money as a publisher was easy enough that you could get the perfect advice from semi-informed fans on an internet message board for free. :hmm:

There seem to be a lot of people on ENWorld who are experts on generating free money. Maybe you guys should all pool your entrepreneurial talents, make $100 million or so and buy D&D for the good of the hobby. :lol:

This is why I find the predictions and speculations being thrown around lately so ridiculous. Poster A: WotC book X sold through it's first print run right away. They obviously have no confidence in their books selling. WotC is doomed! Poster B: WotC isn't printing new copies of book X because...

Actually, TSR had cancelled the D&D line and was only supporting AD&D 2e for several years before it went under.

Nice strawman. I guess it's a good thing that's not what I said.

The fact that people with ALL the information can still make bad decisions does not, in any way, indicate that people with very limited information are able to make BETTER decisions. In fact, it suggests the exact opposite.

According to whom? The fact that YOU don't know what they are doing doesn't in any way indicate that THEY don't know what they are doing.

No, ENWorld has a lot of very passionate gamers who are speculating without any reliable source of information, but lots of personal biases based in their own gaming preferences. To assume that the "eggsheads" of ENWorld speculating with a tiny fraction of the available information are able to...

You know, WotC are interested in making money. They are also in the best position to know WHAT is likely to make them money. I suspect that, despite all the speculation to the contrary, publishing or offering previous edition material as POD wouldn't give WotC a decent ROI or they would be doing...

I'd like WotC to continue publishing good 4e books or online content. Given that the publication of physical books seems to be something they are moving away from due to low ROI, the last thing I want is for them to waste money and effort publishing a product that is, at best, a compromise for...

No. Even if WotC never printed another D&D product and required all of their staff to wear t-shirts with the phrase "Revert! Revert!" printed on them, the OP would still be nowhere near having a point.

It's not that unusual. A lot of independent bookstores and game shops sell their overstock or clearance items through Amazon. The PHB is out-of-date at this point (and it meant to be replaced in the retail stream by the Essentials products and many of the rules have long-since been subject to...

Unless we assume that everyone at WotC is really bad at math, then I thin it's safe to think that if WotC is switching content from print to digital, then the digital end is more profitable at present.

Unfortunately, it seems like the answer may be never. Even forums for long out-of-print versions of D&D (places where, theoretically, the participants shouldn't be invested at all in what WotC does at this point) are rife with people talking about WotC's every move. But I agree with you that the...

What, you mean back when D&D was as popular as it's ever been, when it was sold in stores like Sears and Toys'R'US and not just in bookstores and specialty hobby shops, when it had it's own action figure line and Saturday morning cartoon, when the introductory game and advanced game actually...

I would love plastic tokens if they cost the same per unit as the cardboard ones. But since that isn't going to happen, I would rather stick with the lower-cost cardboard tokens (which, while not indestructible are PLENTY durable for my needs) than switch to the more expensive alternatives.

Neither. It is the fault of the small percentage of fans who took the edition change as an excuse to belittle, insult and root against one side or the other at every opportunity. If they had chosen instead to simply play the game they like and, likewise, to wish their fellow gamers well playing...

I love 4e. I think it's the best version of D&D (actually any fantasy RPG) ever produced. If WotC said "We're happy with this edition, we're just going to keep producing supplements for the base 4e game from now on." I would be happy as a clam. If they said "We're also going to produce high...

I want WotC to keep publishing digest-sized softcover books that are significantly cheaper than their hardcover books. I also want lots more tiles and cardboard monster/NPC tokens.