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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whisper72" data-source="post: 2831369" data-attributes="member: 17339">Well, speaking economically, especially taking into account the fact (?) that PHB sales together outstrip the sales of pretty much all other books combined, then a new release is definately a good move.However, should WotC try to keep the rest of the hobby happy, then one of the best things they could do is to revamp the PHB in such a way as to entice players to buy new books, but without making the mass of books which are mainly aimed at DM's obsolete.A new and improved PHB, including all the new feats, new spells etc. New classes and prestige classes, which makes it such that a player needs only one massive book in which they can find all they'd ever need (sorta...), could be such a product. Tweaking some rules a bit here and there, but not massively changing things.Furthermore, there is still room for more books within the current 3.X framework:There is prolly still rom for several 'convenience books' á la the Spell Compendium. I am sure there would be enough interest in the market for a Feat Compendium, maybe even a PrC Compendium, and a Magic Item Compendium.Also, the Environment Series still has some room for expansion (Forests, Mountains, Swamps, Dungeons).Another thing to keep in mind is that a Campaign World does not take well to a system switch halfway through, so a new edition would prolly have to 'wait' for the Eberron series of campaign books to fill out. FR is already pretty much 'done' (there is always room for more regional sourcebooks for the truly zealous followers, but when looking at how much there is available, it is already so much that there are probably few campaigns set in FR that will ever run out of 'original' material to play around with).With the PHB's being the main moneymaker (when talking books, dont know how much cash is being generated from the whole miniatures thing, but my gueass is that, especially in terms of profitability, miniatures are now 'number one') the main effort of WotC should actually go to growing the hobby.I am truly bewildered why there has been so little effort put in making DnD more accessible in terms of having a well pushed and thought out Basic Set (the current one is 'too little' and going to the books is 'too much') There should be an entry level set with limited classes, feats, spells and equipment lists, simplified combat rules, leave out tons of optional stuff, have s toned down 'DMG' with simplified rules and limited treasure and monster lists (i.e. no seperate MM), with an emphasis on 'how to DM'. In the long run, this would probably be more profitable then the short term wins from introducing a new edition... All IMHO natch...</blockquote>

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