Class Compendium: Gone?

[Riley]

It is the advanced players handbook

If so, would this mean that 4ee may henceforth be referred to as AD&D 4e?

That would be cool - especially if they put a new version of the old 'Demon Idol' painting on the front.

 

[ggroy]

Actually, my bet is that this content is still coming, but is now pulled into a digital only form. We can only guess what that will be.

At best, hopefully some of the content of these "deleted" 2011 4E books will eventually appear as Dragon magazine articles and the crunch making it into the DDI character builder, such as an "Essentialized" version of the Warlord which purportedly was suppose to appear in the "Class Compendium: Heroes of Sword and Spell" book.

On the bright side, it's a great way to get Amazon Super Saver shipping. Just toss any item into your cart, then pad up to more than $25.00 by adding a now deleted item. Instant free shipping.

This happened a few times before, with some of my amazon orders.

 

[Zaran]

The funny thing is that I was planning to buy all those products removed while the ones still listed I probably will only buy the monster vault.

 

[Cyronax]

Perhaps its just the effect of an over-saturated market.

WotC released more hardcover titles in the first 2 years of 4e than 1-3.5 editions. It seems like it might just be an oversaturated market. Did 4e really need to blow its wad so quickly?

I think paring down the releases for D&D products (essentials + normal books) while also releasing Gamma World, board games, novels, and minis is not a bad thing.

So we get a new source book every 3-4 months. WotC then advertises their digital resources like hell too.

Awesome. Quality could increase for published and digitial products, the game's lifespan increases.

C.I.D.


Edit: Forgot to add in the obligatory swipe at evil corporations.

 

[Echohawk]

WotC released more hardcover titles in the first 2 years of 4e than 1-3.5 editions.

This is not true. The number of hardcover releases dropped with the advent of 4e. Here is a graph of D&D hardcover releases since 1976, colour-coded by edition.

 

[Scribble]

Maybe too many people indicated that this book would somehow invalidate their already purchased PHBs leaving them no choice but to quit DnD forever- so they scrapped it in favor of just letting people buy more PHBs.

 

[Mercurius]

Bill Slavicsek does not do communication.

He really needs to study Matthew Sprange's responses to Mongoose stuff-ups.

Slaviscek is yet another in a long line of TSR/WotC guys that has the typical nerdy lack of social awareness. I don't know why TSR/WotC doesn't learn from its mistakes and hire a decent PR person/group, or at least a consultant.

This is not true. The number of hardcover releases dropped with the advent of 4e. Here is a graph of D&D hardcover releases since 1976, colour-coded by edition.

Of course that 3.5 output was rather ridiculous - 20 in one year. Not that I mind, but I think they would be better off limiting it to about half that yet with more non-hardcover formats like digest books (works great for the Rules Compendium not-so-great for Heroes Of books) and box sets.

 

[Rydac]

Since it is the Christmas break right now I don't think we'll get much out of
Wizards until after new year's. There is a good chance this is just a mistake.
The heroes of sword & spell compendium is tied with the next encounters season. To my understanding Wizards has been quite pleased with the encounters program and would seem a huge waste to have it running a new season with nothing new to promote. . .that and encounters seasons are continuing to promote Essentials.

Additionally, the November ampersand which had the weapon master preview in it was at that time going to typesetting. Since this did have a february 15 release that would've put it in premier level stores on february 4th. Unless there was a problem with the printing this product would almost have to start its way through the distribution change soon to hit the original dates.

Let us not worry for a little bit. That & the other worried about cancellation is the book of magic items...aren't those pretty much a core selling item too?

 

[The Little Raven]

At best, hopefully some of the content of these "deleted" 2011 4E books will eventually appear as Dragon magazine articles and the crunch making it into the DDI character builder, such as an "Essentialized" version of the Warlord which purportedly was suppose to appear in the "Class Compendium: Heroes of Sword and Spell" book.

There was not going to be an Essentials-style Warlord build in the Heroes of Spell and Sword. It was going to be the PHB1 Warlord just presented in the overly verbose Essentials class layout.

 

[Zaukrie]

Someone above mentioned they are still making minis, I doubt that very much. They cancelled Heroscape, and there hasn't been a DDM page since the re-launch of the horrible website that doesn't do PR well at all....