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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6285597" data-attributes="member: 82106">They may do this again, but then they'll again learn the lessons that TSR learned. Mixing DM and player content in one book is annoying, its harder than heck to find stuff later, generally each subtopic can only get poor coverage, and the prime problem that most people only want to buy a few theme books, but will buy almost endless splat books.I'm not saying its a bad idea, the splatbooks have equally serious issues. There is just no single 'best' approach. However, looking at the late 4e product output with things like DSG, HotFW and HotEC it seems likely that they'll try the same mostly player-oriented theme books with heavy enough flavor that they also provide a lot of ideas for the DM. New rules systems can be presented in the form of themes, feats, etc and then reused in monster blocks etc to produce some solid usable DM material. This technique does rely on there being additional background books like a Manual of the Planes etc, though I would note that HotFW is the main source for the Feywild.</blockquote>