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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6428887" data-attributes="member: 37579">Given the price for the Elemental Evil adventure I really hope it's a single volume product. Instead of the two books of Tyranny of Dragons is a single big adventure. So it looks like we have that in March and then a second adventure sometime in 2015. I'd say that's around GenCon for the big summer release. That means the schedule looks like this:Early 2015 (March): Elemental Evil Mid 2015 (Aug): New storylineEarly 2016 (March-ish): 4th StoryMid 2016: 5th StoryEtc.Each storyline comes with an accessory. And Adventurer's Handbook. This is half-splatbook, half story accessory. For example, the Elemental Evil Adventurer's Handbook would conceivably be new races (genasi, aasimar, deva) and new class options (primordial warlock, elemental sorcerer, elemental druid, fire and earth clerical domains) along with a description of the elemental planes and related places and figures usable for players but also DMs telling their own story. You can imagine other stories also having an accessory feel. So the anti-ilithid storyline that takes people into the underdark would be paired with the psionic accessory and information on the underdark and psionics. The faerie adventure would have fey PC options and a description of the feywild. The East-meets-West Kara Tur adventure would have an accessory with samuri and wu jen and a world gazetteer.  Four books a years. But I imagine they might be able to get away with a fifth book (a third non-adventure). These should typically be a monster book or campaign setting. Alternating between monsters and worlds wouldn't be too bad, as I don't think we NEED a setting or monster book every year. Not when they can just do PDF sales and update the content via web articles and include monsters in adventures or web books. If I were planning stuff...For 2015 I'd release a Forgotten Realms book. Because that world has changed enough that fans of it NEED one to explain how things have altered after the Sundering. And the late 2015 or early 2016 adventure would be the Underdark to get people psionics. For 2016 I'd release Manual of the Planes along with an extraplanar adventure to tie into that, and the adventure can have any extraplanar races left out if the Elemental Evil book.For 2017 a Monster Manual 2 would be nice, with the best monsters from the first six super adventures, all the content left out of the MM1 and a bunch of other stuff. Call that the Fiend Folio. For 2018 they should a new campaign setting, likely pairing the 9th storyline with another world. Thus they can justify the new campaign setting as it's also part of the adventure (but not required). I imagine the obvious choices would be Ravenloft, Planescape, or Spelljammer, as players can still have their D&D Expeditions characters transfer over. But they might also do something else to maintain trademarks. They don't want to lose the branding of any of their IP, like Birthright or Mystara or Hollow World. Kara Tur and Oriental Adventures would also work.</blockquote>

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