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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5269097" data-attributes="member: 21076">As the Red Box and Essentials becomes the only books on the shelves at the big stores it will sort of become the new edition at that point.  Which was what drove my comment that the new edition likely won't be hardbacks.You are right, quite likely why moving to the paperbacks is advantageous as it allows more affordable reprinting and a likely indicator that this is they way things are going.  But to me this means Essentials has become the "new edition" of D&D.  And I don't mean that in a bad way, this model may work great for them.I admit I get wary of only being able to play this game if the rules and fluff are locked up in DDI and that's why I like to see books printed and out there.  I think I just misunderstood your earlier post.  My thought was simply that Wizards needs to keep books that are more than just the rules compendium and a boxed set that goes from levels 1 to 3 in order to draw new people to the game and keep them playing.</blockquote>