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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6428626" data-attributes="member: 59082">True, true - but then we have Chris Perkins saying that the sales figures of 5E (or the PHB, at least) would make every New York publisher "pass out." That says to me that not only has 5E done very well, but its done better than expected - and certainly met any goals they might have had.Yeah, I think this is true. So while I agree with you that 5E has been a huge success and they are likely re-evaluating how to proceed, the point of this thread was to offer a best guesstimate based upon what we know so far, what has been said, etc. Actually, I think the reason they've been so vague about the plan going forward is that they needed to see how 5E would do. They cut the department down to a skeleton staff, planned a very light product schedule, and then decided to sit back and see what happened. The results were very, very good - which could mean that my projection above--based upon what they've been saying for the past few months--are conservative, at least for 2016 and beyond. If sales remain good, my guess is that 2015 will follow a pattern similar to the above, but that there will be a gradual build-up behind the scenes, with WotC's D&D department gradually swelling back up to something similar to Paizo. I don't expect that they'll go "hog-wild" and return to the splat-happy days of 3E and 4E, that they'll try to stick with some variation of "quality over quantity." But if the people want it, they'll give it - and it seems the people want 5E.</blockquote>

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