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Estimate the exact number of hardcover splat books a D&D edition can put out before the player base is saturated - for the sake of a nice round number, let's say that that's 100. 100 5E books before the diminishing returns from each product make a new edition necessary. Then, lay down a road...

And yet Warforged weren't introduced until Eberron came out four years into 3.5 and a year into 4E. If they were doing the traditional splatbook and campaign sourcebook model, you wouldn't be seeing 5E Warforged until the Eberron book came out a year or two from now. (At least a year or two...

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the term - I assume it's referencing how gnomes weren't in 4E's PHB 1? (Correct me if I'm wrong!) If so, I don't think it applies to 5E - this edition's PHB covers a lot of ground, with nothing obvious missing. (For the last four editions psionics have been...

They've release a grand total of two campaigns so far. Both have been set in the Forgotten Realms, but so what? We don't know if the fall 2015 campaign will be set in the Forgotten Realms or not. We do know that WotC have repeatedly stated that FR is not the default setting. The core books...

The thesis is that not putting out enough book releases (splatbooks, as the adventures appear to be repeatedly discounted or ignored) is harmful to the game. Someone who wanted content that has not been released can agree that that sucks and express that they wish that WotC was producing the...

What Mistwell said. You already said earlier in this very thread that you'd be much happier with a schedule of ~6 releases a year. Between August '14 and April '15, they'll have put out 6 hardcover books, and there could very well be as-yet-unannounced products due to come out before the 1 year...

Pretty sure the only restricted monsters under the OGL are the "Product Identity" monsters: beholder, gauth, carrion crawler, displacer beast, githyanki, githzerai, kuo-toa, mind flayer, slaad, umber hulk and yuan-ti. As long as any of those aren't in there I think they're fine.

Or, you know, download it for free. Heck, print it out and stick it in a binder, or have Lulu.com bind it into a book for you for less than what you'd have paid for the splatbook if you're just dying to spend some money on it.

I don't think that's really true - to the best of my knowledge there's no direct excerpting of 5E text (hence the comments expressing disappointment about monsters not being in quite the same format), and there's definitely no licensing agreement with Necromancer. I'm pretty sure that legally...

And Wizards is likely fine with this. WotC is not Paizo, or Green Ronin or Mongoose - D&D is not their primary business, MTG is. Seriously, the biggest brand in the pen and paper industry is still only small potatoes next to the money printing license that Magic is. Rather than invest a lot of...

I think this would be why it wouldn't happen, more than anything else. People play up Paizo vs. Wizards like they're one of the great rivalries of the age, but realistically I think that's fanboy partisanship, not anything to do with the opinions of the folks working at either company. Even with...

Was referring more to the actual content then the brand sizes in that instance, fully agree on the sizes of the existing audiences. That said, I don't think Guardians' success was as much of an unlikely-to-be-duplicated fluke as you think - certainly no more so than the original Star Wars film...

Agree to disagree. There's nothing that Star Wars or The Avengers or Guardians of the Galaxy or Peter Jackson's LotR and Hobbit movies have that Dungeons and Dragons doesn't have in spades. Right, which is why this edition of the game has doubled down on all the things that differentiates D&D...

Wasn't a popular meme going around EnWorld and other boards a couple of years ago that the hobby was dying because the only dedicated players were the aging grognards and that young people just weren't getting into it because they'd been raised on video games? (I'm legitimately asking that - I...

Increasingly smaller fractions of the player base purchasing each subsequent Fighter's Handbook mean that splatbooks are always a matter of diminishing returns; chump change to the makers of Magic and quite frankly of a questionable level of quality that will only harm the brand they're working...

That's actually a perfect analogy. I'm going to make it into a Chinese buffet because it's nearly lunchtime here and I'm jonesing for some Chinese food. Let's say there's a Chinese Buffet, with plenty of options - shrimp fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, egg drop soup, orange chicken...

The tabletop game is out. It's been released, and has been very warmly received. It is "complete". Will they release more products for it down the line? Sure. But splatbooks beyond the core three have never generated enough profit to support the D&D division hence Christmas lay-offs and...

Yeah, I'd want play-tested content presented via PDF to subscribers rather than individual articles on the site. I'll echo pming above and say that what I hope they're doing is playing D&D exhaustively, to the exclusion of anything else, just so that hopefully when they do open up the flow of...

See, that's what I'd like to see more than anything else - new issues of Dragon and Dungeon. Electronic versions at least since we're never going to see them in print except possibly in compendium format again. Seriously, with half the D&D staff dedicated to licensing stuff, putting out two...

To which I say, thank Pelor they're not going that route again. It's not that we're burying our heads in the sand and ignoring the fact that they're not coming out with a baker's dozen of new splatbooks, it's that we are actively glad they are not doing that this time around. Seriously, when...