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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7330885" data-attributes="member: 37579">I think that every time we think we know where the line is going we've been proven wrong.The spring book has been a lower energy reprint the last couple years. Likely because making the big summer adventure takes so long, and is not made any easier by Perkin's convention schedule. As such, I doubt we'll see something dramatic: we could get another reprint adventure, or a freelancer heavy book, or an accessory.  Especially given Mearls has teased that they may get away from two adventures a year, this could be something else.The two adventures a year has been good, but they can really only properly support one with minis and side products. Focusing on the fall adventure makes the most sense. Plus, since the adventures take more than six months to run and more and more new people are getting into the game, there's a growing backlog of unplayed adventures. It makes sense to slow things down, and let people "catch up" than continuing to release adventures twice as fast as they can be consumed.This is the irony of RPG game publishing. Once you get into a nice groove with products, you probably need to shake things up. The post-launch release schedule looks very different than the two-years-later release schedule which looks different from the five-years-later release schedule.(You can look at something Paizo for an example of the alternative. Where they're still releasing adventure path after adventure path, but each takes a good eight months to run, so after playing two APs a third isn't played. After 20+ APs, even someone who started at the very beginning and never took a break, will now have a back catalogue of seven APs. Enough for four-and-a-half years of gaming.)Back to WotC...I doubt they'd release two PC splatbooks so close together. Xanathar's Guide to Everything is still selling really well, and they likely wouldn't want to cut into its sales with more class content so soon. And with that itch scratched, the second book won't sell nearly as well. There has been a lot of planar content in Unearthed Arcana and on DragonTalk. So a Manual of the Planes style book would be a possibility. A Elminster's Guide to the Outer Planes or something, which would be exactly like previous Manual of the Planes but with small post-it notes written by Elminster...I would so love a nice, hefty sized Manual of the Planes and Deities & Demigods for 5e, updating those classics with modern art and design.</blockquote>

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