Class Compendium: Gone?

2011 is looking mighty thin right now. I see one of three possibilities... The don't-announce-a-product-until-it-is-ready-for-the-public policy has extended past DDI software and into physical books; or there is some major new direction that will announced soon.

Actually, the newly ascended to management Mike Mearls indicated a new direction for D&D in the year in review podcast. Perhaps the "cut" books didn't fit in with his vision for post 2010 D&D.
 

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While we're making predictions, I predict that a new line of releases in 2011 will put an emphasis on live action play and that 5e will be LARPG.
 

There is a thread that EN World's (new?) forum software will not actually allow me to link to... it is located on the WOTC D&D forum, 4e General Discussion... it is called "Class Compendium cancelled?". According to post #204, an unsourced report by some forum member, the Class Compendium and the Mordenkainen's yadda-yadda have been delayed until Summer 2011. This information is said to come from a WOTC employee.

Sadly, as I said, EN World isn't allowing the link, apparently.

It may or may not be the case, obviously. But there's at least a possibility that we'll be seeing these books this summer.
 



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?

4e to gamers everywhere: "Gee, sorry, baby. I have no idea what happened."

:lol:
 

I find all the breast tearing and ullullations of fandom amusing actually. While WotC forges ahead and moves from strength to strength with perhaps a clumsy placement of a foot now and then people gnash their teeth and tear their hair out while wildly decrying the horror of it all. lol.

Basically they've advanced D&D more in the last 2.5 years than it has advanced in the 20 years before that, created an online toolset, modernized their online community, created a mass market edition of the game that is actually rules compatible with what was in use already, put in place a whole DDE thing, and all the while churning out books at a rate almost unheard of except in a few brief periods of the heyday of the game, and quality books at that.

Yeah, WotC are a whole ship of fools. Directionless, badly lead, unable to execute, hopeless really! B-)
 



Kedrith at the Link said:
I spoke to a WotC employee and when I asked him about the Class Comp he stated "Its being delayed till probobly early summerish" he also volunteered that the Morkakain's guide was being delayed too.
Thats all I got.
I am skeptical as to how reliable the information is from someone who can't spell/doesn't know "Mordenkainen." :-S

--but hopeful nonetheless. Those two books are on my "Want" list.
 


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