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<blockquote data-quote="doctorhook" data-source="post: 7668394" data-attributes="member: 58401"><p>I agree. My point lately has been that I really believe WotC <em>would</em> be releasing more books right now if they had the budget to develop them, and more fundamentally, if they thought those books would be suitably profitable. We know that 4E was ultimately not great for the brand, and I definitely feel that WotC has not been in a gambling mood with regards to 5E's release schedule; we got a starter set (cheap but with a strong adventure), three core books (top notch quality overall), then two outsourced adventure paths, and currently silence about what's next. In the past, we always new about some other book coming down the pipe within six months, and while I'm sure stuff currently is under development, the fact that they no longer want to announce their plans suggests they don't want to make any commitments until profitability is assured. (Obviously books are a diminishing and TTRPGing is a diminishing hobby, but IMO there's still more demand for new D&D books than they appear to be capitalizing upon for now.)</p><p></p><p>Man, you forgot a whole bunch of stuff just in the first six months of 4E: Adventurer's Vault, Open Grave, Draconomicon 1, and Manual of the Planes, plus two Forgotten Realms hardcovers, not to mention <em>four</em> 96-page adventures, all before the end of 2008. (Honestly, I'm not even sure that I'm not forgetting about some books.) Like you pointed out, 4E was released in June of that year.</p><p></p><p>I definitely do not advocate a return to this level of output, but to me it does feel like 5E has left us hanging.</p><p></p><p>I think you're oversimplifying here. 4E was a failure because of a bunch of factors, and their release schedule was only one part of that. Many of us want to buy more products exactly because we're enjoying 5E as much as we are (and in a couple cases, because it feels like certain options were not given the same breadth of development that others were). If we're standing here with our wallets open, what's wrong with asking for more?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorhook, post: 7668394, member: 58401"] I agree. My point lately has been that I really believe WotC [i]would[/i] be releasing more books right now if they had the budget to develop them, and more fundamentally, if they thought those books would be suitably profitable. We know that 4E was ultimately not great for the brand, and I definitely feel that WotC has not been in a gambling mood with regards to 5E's release schedule; we got a starter set (cheap but with a strong adventure), three core books (top notch quality overall), then two outsourced adventure paths, and currently silence about what's next. In the past, we always new about some other book coming down the pipe within six months, and while I'm sure stuff currently is under development, the fact that they no longer want to announce their plans suggests they don't want to make any commitments until profitability is assured. (Obviously books are a diminishing and TTRPGing is a diminishing hobby, but IMO there's still more demand for new D&D books than they appear to be capitalizing upon for now.) Man, you forgot a whole bunch of stuff just in the first six months of 4E: Adventurer's Vault, Open Grave, Draconomicon 1, and Manual of the Planes, plus two Forgotten Realms hardcovers, not to mention [i]four[/i] 96-page adventures, all before the end of 2008. (Honestly, I'm not even sure that I'm not forgetting about some books.) Like you pointed out, 4E was released in June of that year. I definitely do not advocate a return to this level of output, but to me it does feel like 5E has left us hanging. I think you're oversimplifying here. 4E was a failure because of a bunch of factors, and their release schedule was only one part of that. Many of us want to buy more products exactly because we're enjoying 5E as much as we are (and in a couple cases, because it feels like certain options were not given the same breadth of development that others were). If we're standing here with our wallets open, what's wrong with asking for more? [/QUOTE]
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