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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zardnaar" data-source="post: 6927938" data-attributes="member: 6716779">It was a success but WoTC screwed it up. The big ones were.3.5 released 2 years to earlyTo many books bloated the market (diminishing returns) combined with 2004 3.5 crashing the market+ World of Warcraft landing. I think there is a middle ground between bloat and very little. They are working on a new book of splat. What I think they are doing is driving up pent up demand so when something does land it sells big kind of like the original UA saved D&D.  They are also trying out to see if the "adventures don't sell theory" holds true. They sold in 1E/B/X day and with the Pathfinder APs they did not sell to much during the 2E one due to things like to many settings, crappy adventures produced and a lack of Gary E Gygaxs name on the cover.3.0 was stupidly front loaded and in 2E I think it took them 4 years to make a FR boxed set and TSR only made 1 hardcover a year+ lots of softcover.They started spamming books later because they needed a quick money infusion (UA and DL saved TSR), sure enough though they started working on 2E two years later though. I think people are not used to waiting. I have resorted to 3pp myself thatis money left on the table by WoTC. I want to buy more but o not want 3E or 4E levels of bloat (or 2E). Buying a dozen D&D books sure buying 60 or 80+ like 2E/3E not so much. Bought 4 of the 5E APs, not rally buying any more now so no CoS/SKT for me. Its not like they have done a good job with all those APs anyway.</blockquote>

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