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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5350778" data-attributes="member: 59082">That's sort of my point. Those are the types of books I don't buy anyways, that I get through DDI updates. In some sense I would have the same complaint if WotC only came out with Power books over an eight-month span, without and fluff-oriented theme books, campaign settings, or core expansions.   Yes, true. So why is this bogus? I admitted to hyperbole, so what's the problem? Even so, I think it is safe to say that we are amidst the slowest time for new 4E material in its shortish history. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is what it is.  I dunno. From what I've gathered their just Essentializing the PHB stuff. So basically it looks like a revised version of part of the PHB.I'm definitely getting that, plus Mordenkainen's, maybe Heroes of Shadow. I was planning on getting the Nentir Vale Gazetteer but am unsure if or when that is coming out. I am hoping that they are reformatting it to be a hardcover (better) or box set (best).Ugh, too bad. But if they do what I'm suspecting they'll do--make hardcovers a deluxe format limited to core rulebooks and campaign settings--then that would make sense.Yes, that's the thing. The nature of the industry is that they're going to have to constantly scramble for sales spikes, whether it is new editions, new formats, new product lines, etc. But what they know doesn't work is the endless churning out of the same type of thing, year after year.Ha! I appreciate that. Hyperbole means over-exaggeration, over-dramatic, etc.Yes, good point. Again, I don't see why it has to be either/or, why we can't see a variety of formats. This is how I would do it:Hardcovers - core rulebooks and expansions, major theme booksBox Sets - campaign settings, mega adventures, starter set(s)Digest/softcovers books - rules references, crunch splats, setting expansionsOr something like that. They could still stick with 15ish book products a year, but 3-6 could be hardcover, 2-4 box sets, and 6-8 digests/softcovers.</blockquote>

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