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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6302782" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>Yep, it's a good decision.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I actually wouldn't be at all surprised if the PHB/DMG/MM were pretty much 'it' as far as 5e was concerned, at least in print. Both because 960 pages is potentially a <em>lot</em> of material, and also because we know that profitability of RPG books drops off sharply beyond the core. So a strategy of a single, big, evergreen core followed by online rules support and the occasional printed setting/adventure book might seem attractive.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's perhaps worth noting that this isn't <em>entirely</em> new - back when WotC got back into doing adventures (in the late 3.5e era), most of the adventures they produced were actually written by freelance talent rather than their in-house guys. I'm not sure there's a huge difference between getting Wolfgang Baur to pen "Expedition to the Demonweb Pits" and gettings WB's Kobold Press to pen "Hoard of the Dragon Queen".</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A less restrictive license would certainly be a good thing. But, even with that, I wouldn't expect to see the same level of adventure support as Pathfinder enjoys. That subscription model that Paizo uses is pretty key to what they do; it would be difficult for any other company (or, indeed, many other companies together) to match them on the consistency of both the quantity and the quality of the output.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6302782, member: 22424"] Yep, it's a good decision. I actually wouldn't be at all surprised if the PHB/DMG/MM were pretty much 'it' as far as 5e was concerned, at least in print. Both because 960 pages is potentially a [i]lot[/i] of material, and also because we know that profitability of RPG books drops off sharply beyond the core. So a strategy of a single, big, evergreen core followed by online rules support and the occasional printed setting/adventure book might seem attractive. It's perhaps worth noting that this isn't [i]entirely[/i] new - back when WotC got back into doing adventures (in the late 3.5e era), most of the adventures they produced were actually written by freelance talent rather than their in-house guys. I'm not sure there's a huge difference between getting Wolfgang Baur to pen "Expedition to the Demonweb Pits" and gettings WB's Kobold Press to pen "Hoard of the Dragon Queen". A less restrictive license would certainly be a good thing. But, even with that, I wouldn't expect to see the same level of adventure support as Pathfinder enjoys. That subscription model that Paizo uses is pretty key to what they do; it would be difficult for any other company (or, indeed, many other companies together) to match them on the consistency of both the quantity and the quality of the output. [/QUOTE]
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