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<blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 6505169" data-attributes="member: 6701829">And Wizards is likely fine with this.WotC is not Paizo, or Green Ronin or Mongoose - D&amp;D is not their primary business, MTG is. Seriously, the biggest brand in the pen and paper industry is still only small potatoes next to the money printing license that Magic is.Rather than invest a lot of money and man-hours into an unsustainable product line a la 3.x or 4E, Wizards has decided on putting out a solid rules system to keep the game alive, a modest schedule of ~6 books a year, and doubling down on organized play. D&amp;D is worth far more to them as a brand than it is a product line - it never has and likely never will bring in a ton of money as a pen and paper RPG, but as a successful movie franchise / cable or streaming TV series / best selling series of novels / AAA video game series, it's worth Tiamat's weight in gold.To reiterate - our money isn't what they're after this time around. They're going to put out as much as they feel will keep as many people playing the game as possible, going so far as to give away what was going to have likely been a profitable splatbook for them. They've clearly seen SOME numbers telling them that a 3.x / early 4E / Pathfinder like schedule is at cross purposes towards that goal.They're banking that players of the game filling seats when the movie or the TV show or the video game or the freakin' Broadway show comes out, because THAT will be what makes D&amp;D into a mainstream success, not &quot;The Complete Book of Fighter Tricks Vol. VII - Caltrops and Friends.&quot; And it's not just 5E players they're looking to, but 4E players, 3.5 players, 2E players, 1E players, Basic players, Mentzer players, OD&amp;D players, and yes even Pathfinder players because let's face it, it's all the same damn game. Hence all the old books up on D&amp;D Classics and the focus on fluffy adventures that can be easily ported to any edition regardless of crunch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Trickster Spirit, post: 6505169, member: 6701829"] And Wizards is likely fine with this. WotC is not Paizo, or Green Ronin or Mongoose - D&D is not their primary business, MTG is. Seriously, the biggest brand in the pen and paper industry is still only small potatoes next to the money printing license that Magic is. Rather than invest a lot of money and man-hours into an unsustainable product line a la 3.x or 4E, Wizards has decided on putting out a solid rules system to keep the game alive, a modest schedule of ~6 books a year, and doubling down on organized play. D&D is worth far more to them as a brand than it is a product line - it never has and likely never will bring in a ton of money as a pen and paper RPG, but as a successful movie franchise / cable or streaming TV series / best selling series of novels / AAA video game series, it's worth Tiamat's weight in gold. To reiterate - our money isn't what they're after this time around. They're going to put out as much as they feel will keep as many people playing the game as possible, going so far as to [i]give away[/i] what was going to have likely been a profitable splatbook for them. They've clearly seen SOME numbers telling them that a 3.x / early 4E / Pathfinder like schedule is at cross purposes towards that goal. They're banking that players of the game filling seats when the movie or the TV show or the video game or the freakin' Broadway show comes out, because THAT will be what makes D&D into a mainstream success, not "The Complete Book of Fighter Tricks Vol. VII - Caltrops and Friends." And it's not just 5E players they're looking to, but 4E players, 3.5 players, 2E players, 1E players, Basic players, Mentzer players, OD&D players, and yes even Pathfinder players because let's face it, [i]it's all the same damn game[/i]. Hence all the old books up on D&D Classics and the focus on fluffy adventures that can be easily ported to any edition regardless of crunch. [/QUOTE]

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