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I suspect you're being facetious, but in all seriousness a good television show is exactly the kind of thing that would turn the brand into a huge win for Hasbro. Game of Thrones has what, three more seasons tops? Get preproduction underway in a year or two and a Dragonlance (or, let's face...

Honestly I go back and forth on whether I think we'll ever see 5E under the OGL, but it would solve the issue of ongoing support... Wizards wouldn't have to invest any more resources into 5E than they are now, and the floodgates would open to keep the hardcore gamers satisfied, while still being...

Paizo is really the only "other business" that puts out remotely the amount of product we're discussing though. Not Cubicle7's The One Ring, nor Fantasy Flight's Star Wars RPG... hell even World of Darkness which is famous for the amount of product White Wolf churned out in the 90s has a much...

For what it's worth, I think that sentiment is perfectly valid and share it myself. I would love to have a campaign setting book to buy or a MMII on the horizon, and with no offense intended to Morrus, really the only reason I've backed En5ider on Patreon is because because there's been no...

Why would you unleash such an evil thought unto the world? You've doomed us all!

https://twitter.com/ChrisPerkinsDnD/status/576404680453967872 and https://twitter.com/ChrisPerkinsDnD/status/576407464712626176

Personally I think they'll give us a FRCS book first then do another setting in 2016, but they're definitely not shackled to the Realms for the lifespan of the edition - the copious references to non-Realms settings in the core books, Mearls' repeated admonitions that "5E's default setting is...

Excellent point, I'd agree with this completely. The iPhone / Android comparison is particularly apt. The trend reversed itself in that analogy as well - the first Android smartphones imitated the newly released iPhone (the Android prototype actually had a QWERTY keyboard that was abandoned...

I'm not even a particularly big fan of Greyhawk and that sounds utterly amazing. Damn it, now I'm going to be disappointed if that's not what the big reveal is.

Heh, I know it'll sound like I'm contradicting myself, but I actually quite agree with you. I do believe that they've turned their focus away from just the tabletop game and are looking at the larger brand as the way to make a profit off of D&D, but they did spent a lot of time and effort...

Has it occurred to anyone that they have looked at survey feedback, private focus groups and sales figures from 3.5 and 4E and just decided that campaign setting books won't sell terribly well? They didn't do quarterly campaign gazetteers in 4E when they did release a lot more product, why...

But the whole point is that they don't have to spend ANY money to profit off licensed uses of the brand. WizKids assumes all the costs of making the D&D boardgames and pays WotC for the privilege of using the D&D IP. n-Space and Digital Extremes will produce Sword Coast Legends on their own dime...

Nah, reception is based pretty much entirely on how much individual groups like the game. The vast majority of D&D players aren't on forums and never hear WotC's communications in the first place. Wizards has been perfectly communicative, and they've made the release schedule public, there's...

I agree in that I don't think that choice paralysis is the actual reason releasing too much product is bad for the game. (I do think that choice paralysis exists, and that it has a negative effect on a game with a vast catalog of material, but it's of secondary or tertiary importance.) You and...

I'd agree with that sentiment, but I honestly do think that if they'd released 5E in 2000 or 2008 instead, that we'd still have seen a new edition come out ~4-8 years later. The diminishing returns from that kind of output would have driven them to a new version sooner or later. It took two WotC...

I think you're right. The game will never again see pre-2010 levels of support. I think we'll continue to see what they've been putting out so far - two big adventure paths a year and accompanying supplements taking the form of hardcover Player's Companions or free online PDFs. Plus a monthly...

We're perfectly in agreement on that point, I was just drawing the distinction between "D&D the tabletop RPG product line" and "D&D the Intellectual Property, that still stands to make WotC / Hasbro a buttload of money, potentially on the scale of Transformers." Not saying there was any...

You're still thinking of WotC as "a publisher who sells D&D books". In reality, it's closer to "the owners of the D&D IP, who will make their money off of novels, board games, video games, and movies, and who maintain a token pen-and-paper RPG line the sales of which they are mostly indifferent...

People have looked at the Mearl's statement saying they have financial data saying lots of product was bad for 3E and 4E, and come to the conclusion that "bloat" leads to diminishing returns in terms of sales and that the "wall of books" phenomenon scares away potential new players. Personally...

The "what-if" game is essentially what you're asking all of us to play, though. Mearls has said they have fan base surveys and sales data indicating that releasing a lot of product is bad for the game, and you're saying "what if that's BS, though?" Either Mearls is lying, or you could be...