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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6279173" data-attributes="member: 22424">Aye, it's a really tricky one.Well, they'll almost certainly release the new editions as PDFs also. Will that do?On a serious note: how many people do you think are out there who:1) Are not currently DDI subscribers AND2) Would subscribe to a 5e DDI?Because that's the number that needs to be high enough to justify the investment in developing new 5e tools. And I just can't see it myself.(Okay, technically there's also the number of people who are current DDI subscribers and who would definitely cancel unless 5e tools were added. But if they're still subscribing now when the only thing in DDI is the 4e tools, it's hard to imagine they'd cancel en masse without dedicated 5e support. I might, of course, be wrong.)There will be some people who do that, but how many sales does that represent?Sadly, the proliferation of settings was one of the things that killed TSR (though certainly not the only thing, nor the biggest). It's the same issue as with DDI cannibalising splatbook sales - you probably end up with more sales in total with multiple offerings. But instead of concentrating those sales into one success story, they're spread out amongst several that become individual failures.(Here, again, I think the "Kickstarter Model" is probably ideal for settings - pitch your setting book as the main offering, with the rest of the line as stretch goals. That way, you know up-front how much interest is there, you know going in that the money is there, and you also know you won't have to scrape around for more supplements down the line. Plus, Eberron and Al-Qadim have both shown that a setting with a fairly short, high-quality product line can do very well indeed.)Honestly, I will be quite surprised if any setting other than Forgotten Realms gets in-print support from WotC for 5e. It's just about possible that they might license out a few other settings, but I suspect the bulk of the rest (and any new settings) will be presented in DDI... assuming they do indeed resume the eMags.</blockquote>

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