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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6099923" data-attributes="member: 82106">I think you can clearly see a progression in WotC's mastering of this whole equation over the 5 year life of 4e so far. At first they were selling splat books like Martial Power, just giant compendiums of powers and etc, 99% crunch, then they had DDI full of rather fluffy articles and such (there was a lot of crunch there too, but also a lot of fluff, history of this god or that country or etc). The situation is almost reversed now. The books that have been put out for 4e recently include Heroes of the Feywild, Heroes of the Elemental Chaos, a drow book (with NO crunch), and various adventures and supplements. Meanwhile DDI is now the ONLY crunch delivery mechanism for 4e. There's still other stuff there, but its clear that WotC has discerned that the best equation is to sell you books full of art, ideas, some light crunch, but mostly fluff, which you cannot find in anything like the same quality and presentation on DDI, and which it is nice to be able to read from a book. Meanwhile the crunch goes right the heck into Compendium and skips even bothering with hardcopy that DDI cannibalizes anyway. Of course 4e has aged over that time period as well, and other things have happened, but it certainly seems like WotC has been feeling its way towards a formula that would allow all its D&D products to fill different needs and not overlap too much. I think there are still some parts that IMHO have been missed, but some of that is technological too. PDF is a great format for people to download and read, but it is a horrible format to curate, and so far curation is DDI's one real failure, at least as far as anything beyond hard crunch goes (Compendium does that tolerably well).</blockquote>

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