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Ravenloft ran almost steadily for 14 years (and was really cut short by the 3.5 transition, else it might have sustained a year or two more) and was slated for revival just before WotC made their radical direction change in 2011. Indeed, a couple comments by the developers over the years have...

Did no one else notice the bit in the Forbes article about new Ravenloft "very soon"?

There was one month in that period when D&D slipped to #2--when no new product was being released and Vampire: The Masquerade Revised had just been released.

Indeed. For example, I notice that Pathfinder only overtakes D&D after the schedule gets chopped to pieces in 2011. (Half the products announced for the Q1/Q2 timeframe were delayed or never released at all.) Similarly, D&D slips to #3 when new print product practically stops altogether...

I honestly expected angel, dragon, elemental and genie pacts at some point in 4E's lifespan. I'm really surprised we never got them--but I think by the time certain archetypes (witch and sha'ir) came around, the game had moved into its Essentials/early Next mode of "arcane spellcasters are...

Rules Cyclopedia: $24.95 in 1991 would be $42.85. So if the D&D Next 'Player's Handbook' is comparable to that , with better art and a bit more room to breathe, it won't be too out of line.

I've been using this method to track upcoming WotC releases for the better part of a decade (sometimes B&N, more often Amazon), and the answer is "accurate far more often than not." Sometimes a product gets delayed or repriced, but the first listing's usually pretty accurate.

For the first half of its run; the logo was revised to just say "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" in May 1995. The 3.5 core books had "Version 3.5" plates on their covers, though not as part of the logo. So basically, the only time the game gives an edition number on the cover is when it's a...

It's a two-part code of letters and numbers. Letter designates the series; number designates the order of publication within the series. For AD&D as of 1990, according to Lawrence Schick's Heroic Worlds: A=Aerie of the Slave Lords series C=Competition series (tournament modules) (This is why...

Indeed there was. There was supposed to be a variant based on the movie, IIRC, but it never saw the light of day.

Good point. My situation is such that I'm in the opposite position and so shouldn't be relied upon too much. If $50 really is the entry point, then in and of itself, it's not too bad. You mention Pathfinder, and FFG seems to be doing all right with its Star Wars games, which are $60 for the...

Well, the 3E PH and 3.5 PH were $30, not $35. :) The $20 price doesn't count, really--that was explicitly a bargain or loss leader price for early adopters to convince them to buy the books. The 4E PH was $35; using the government inflation calculator, that would be $38 in 2014 dollars. (And...

Well, it looks like the first information has started to leak out to bookstores, as the following products can be found on barnesandnoble.com D&D Starter Set, releasing July 15, 2014, list price $19.95 D&D Player's Handbook, releasing August 19, 2014, list price $49.95 That's a pretty...

This is why I've proposed putting everything up in PDF/PoD and then stopping new product development. ;)

Are you referring to the whole series? Then based on my memories of reading them a decade back, and starting to reread them this past summer but getting distracted, try starting with The Dark is Rising proper, instead of Over Sea, Under Stone. Well, the authors admit in the Annotated...

You could say the same about Riverwind, who is a ranger according to the game stats. Although he has the excuse that Weis & Hickman heavily sideline him by the time he reaches the level to get those. :)

SAGA's "horrible reputation" comes mainly from people who didn't like the fact that it had to roll with the changes made by Dragons of Summer Flame, didn't like that it wasn't AD&D anymore (after AD&D DL had withered and died two/three years prior), or were exposed to it primarily through...

For the anchorite, it looks like the author Googled "dungeons dragons anchorite" and just used the first result that came up--which is a homebrew Prestige Class.

Agreed. I'm skeptical of Next, but getting a little less so, and I'm willing to give it a look. At its worst, I expect it to be on par with 2E or 3.0--a few rough patches, but a solid game. Unfortunately, what let a game dominate the market in 1989 or 2000 may not fly in 2014, when we have so...

That's not necessarily a bad thing. If this is going to reach more than the hardcore gamers, they'll need to provide support for those who come to the game fresh--and support for those who prefer a more open-ended, sandbox or "PvP MMO" style* and those who like a more linear, "console RPG" style...