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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 8576800" data-attributes="member: 6871736">I'm not saying it's going to be mind-blowing, or even really innovative, though I think it could be.I'm saying that the transcript clearly demonstrates that at least part of what Ray Winninger means by "new format" is, in fact, some actually "new" (at the very least, new to WotC-published 5e material) physical stuff, not just new digital stuff and not just a book with new-to-5e content, nor even a new box of booklets, punch-out cards, maps, etc. (since that would just duplicate the Starter/Essentials format, to which in the transcript they explicitly contrast this unspecified new thing).It's a new physical format, and while Schuh appears to use "components" and "format" more or less interchangeably here, it also seems unlikely to me that all of these people would so frequently use the term "new format" if all they meant by that were, say, making their own spellbook cards in-house rather than licensing those rights out (which is a change that WotC wants, or at least recently used to want, to implement [we know this from the Gale Force Nine lawsuit]), or even making a 2e-style setting box set.I think it's entirely possible that whatever they're alluding to here is just some new kind of component that will be included in an otherwise old-fashioned box set such as Dragons of Stormwreck Isle. But I think it's much more likely that this will be an actually new-to-WotC component type, even though it could be something we've seen before from third-party publishers or in other RPGs.I also have a sneaking suspicion that this will be some sort of digital-physical hybrid, though I won't speculate as to what kind. If true, this would most likely be a pass from me, but it's certainly the kind of thing I think WotC would choose to go with.</blockquote>

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