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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 5431070" data-attributes="member: 30678">I believe it too; it might be a completely digital business model which  revolves around VTT and DDi, and including e-book publishing. Although I  doubt it; I just can't believe they could pull it off on their own,  given their track record so far. However, pulling those books off the  market might indicate that they might be considering going all-digital  -- especially in the light "You're going to see this material in another  form"-type of comments. I just don't think enough gamers own, or would  buy, an e-book reader (and I don't believe they would use PDF as the  format). Instead, it might be digital components purchased online;  digital power and fortune cards, digital minis and tiles for VTT,  themes, etcetera. Maybe there would even be overlap with  console/computer games, i.e. purchased fortune/power cards and themes  could be imported and exported between the game and VTT, for example. But will it still be 4E? The next announcement might also be about a new edition of D&D which probably wouldn't a new edition per se,  at least according to WoTC. What I mean by this is that there would be  no '5E', ever; I could even see them marketing it with slogans like  "It's still Dungeons & Dragons" and "The game remains the same!". It  wouldn't matter if the base mechanics changed; they pulled it off it  with Essentials, too (and regardless of what other people think, it  looks like a new and revised edition to me). Maybe there will be modular  add-ons published as boxed sets (if they still go for printed  material), or completely digital additions to the base system (as  above). If they use boxed sets, there might be overlap with their  boardgames; perhaps new classes,  new power cards, new themes and so on.  As has been said before, they've throwing all kinds of stuff around to  see what "sticks", and I'm very curious to see what WoTC will do next...</blockquote>

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