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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 5260137" data-attributes="member: 46713">My guess: It will depend entirely on the commercial success of the Essentials product line. I'm not sold on the idea and I'm also not fond of softcovers.I'd prefer if they returned to publishing new books of the 'established' types after the Essentials intermezzo, i.e. PHB4, MM4, DMG3, x Power 2, Feywild, etc. There's still hope!For me the only saving grace for Essentials would be providing localized versions of the rules. And if the localized version was also hardcover...My opinion might still change (and the pricing will be an important factor in this), but I don't feel enthusiastic about paying for a bunch of experimental, asymmetrical 3.9 builds of classes that are perfectly fine and a monster manual 1 with errata.In a way this parallels what happened when they released 3.5: I had just bought all the 3.0 books and was ready to start my campaign. Now, my 4e campaign will start in earnest right after the release of Essentials.</blockquote>