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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 6622757" data-attributes="member: 6701829">I think we agree there, but I'm a tad less pessimistic about Dragon+ - if they were planning to get rid of it in a year or two I don't think they'd have bothered making it in the first place.Unearthed Arcana may eventually go away, but I'm still expecting to see it last long enough for them to eventually turn it into a "fourth core book" - I'll freely admit that might be wishful thinking though.But yeah, aside from that and a monster book I'm expecting that to be pretty much it except for the APs. I'm not sure they'll go that boxed set route for ordinary APs as boxed sets are surprisingly more expensive than ordinary hardcovers, but maybe they'll be willing to spring for another starter set to onboard new groups.I should note that until we actually start seeing hardcover supplements accompany the APs, my official prediction is that they'll continue to release player options as smaller PDF companions for each AP, exactly as they did with PotA. No accompanying hardcover has been announced for OotA yet so maybe they've decided there's not enough of a market for hardcover player's option books to make physical releases twice a year a viable strategy for their budget. We might end up seeing the spells, items and subclasses from the PotA, OotA, etc. companions end up in an Unearthed Arcana hardcover, or possibly a completely seperate Adventurer's Handbook. Pure speculation on my part. But yeah, twice annual APs with a possible third hardcover released every other year. Personally, I'm fine with that. I could really go for a Dungeon+ app with smaller adventures, and they might even put one out eventually, but for the forseeable future my expectations are set for an Unearthed Arcana every month, a Dragon+ issue every other month, and two APs a year, with a PotA PDF companion. I don't really have any problems with the idea that that's all we'll get with D&D this go-around, but then 5E is my first edition of D&D-proper and I thought Pathfinder was too bloated when I tried to explain to my players what their options for character creation were.I'll ask not just you, but everyone else still reading this far into the thread - if we turn out to be right about our expected level of output from WotC, do you see yourself playing 5E in five years?I do.</blockquote>

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