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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 5839123" data-attributes="member: 40810">Well, they're the evergreens until the end of the edition. Just so happens to be that the end of the edition is now.Well, in Germany the problem was that D&D was never the big fish in the pond ever since DSA was released. And the edition war in Germany was clearly won by the 3.x side.Despite that however the German publisher was quite happy with his sales of the first localized 4e books and would have very much liked to continue translating them. Unfortunately WotC wanted more than the German market could yield and instead of listening to the market knowledge of the German publisher they just canceled the contracts and went on looking for a different publisher.Well, there aren't that many RPG publishers in Germany able to handle something like D&D and WotC went to talk to each of them and they all only shook their heads upon hearing the figures WotC wanted to see. And that was unfortunately the end of German D&D.In a market were the 3.x'ers had won the edition wars anyway, the stop of localized D&D supplements was the final nail in the coffin of 4e in Germany. Now we have some small holdouts, but getting fresh blood is almost impossible with only English supplements available.Without a German 5e I fear that this edition would be doomed in Germany</blockquote>