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Message: <blockquote data-quote="1Mac" data-source="post: 3706730" data-attributes="member: 48998">To be slightly less utopian for a bit:There are plenty of ways that Wizards could still screw this up. Geron Raveneye and Kaodi both make excellent points that indicate how. My hope would be that the popularity of DI would be such that filler-ish supplements would simply be unprofitable. They may still try it, because old habits die hard, but if they look at slumping sales and compare it to the DI, they will axe such books for the long-term. From a business perspective, DI is the better choice because the content is easier to produce and because there are very low variable costs. With books, for each unit you sell, you have to do printing, quality control, warehousing, and distribution. With DI, there is not much additional cost for each additional user. I think yearly printed supplements like what Obergnom posits are likely, but that would be a boon.Also, despite my fevered ramblings, I do think that 5th edition is inevitable. But consider, for a long time at the beginning of the hobby there were no printed supplements available. Everything was done piecemeal through magazines. This provided gamers with all the material they needed for a long time, and a revision was a very long time coming (I am using this article by <a href="http://www.indie-rpgs.com/articles/20/" target="_blank">Ron Edwards</a>  to reinforce this perspective. I was not even alive at the time, so I defer to those with greater knowledge and experience.)DI uses this same basic model. The major advantage is that all the expanded material will be in one easy-to-search, easy-to-find place. So my hope is that 5e is nearly a decade off, if not longer, because the DI model will make it unnecessary and unwise.</blockquote>

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