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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 7311927" data-attributes="member: 9789">Personally, I'm a little disappointed that nothing posted (didn't read the AMA) went into bigger-picture stuff.  These were all just minor, nit-picky details and opinions.  Like most AMAs, nothing was actually said.  And after a year of nearly no news, the lack of additional news is really disheartening.In my mind, D&D has sort of dropped off a cliff with 5.0.  Since the 3.0 revival, there were constant drips of new products and new geekery to keep people interested and coming back.  But since 5.0 dropped, we've had nearly nothing.  We just had one additional "core-ish" book published - the reaction to which, at least according to this forum, seems to show an extreme pent-up demand for more books.  But overall it feels like maybe 4.0 was such a disappointment (sales-wise/concept-wise/whatever) that Hasbro/WotC/parent company X stopped putting any eggs in the D&D basket and re-regulated the market to "niche."  Despite all the talk of a movie and video games and bigger tie-ins and everything, D&D feels like it was a much bigger brand 10 years ago or even 5 years ago than it is today, and a big part of that is the lack of content.  I was looking the other day and I have dozens of 3.5 books, about a dozen 4.0 books, and exactly four 5.0 books.  I'm obviously giving far more weight to splat books than adventures, but I don't think that's the only thing missing here.  They've also stopped making minis and add-on products (I'm also disregarding random packs entirely) which, while I'm guessing they must not have been profitable, increased brand awareness.  And to have nothing said of future plans just leads me back to the conclusion that there are no future plans.  The idea that they have no short-term plans for the ranger, for example?  What in the world?  After months and months of feedback and design and presumed attention they have NO plans that will come together any time soon?  So... there's just no plan, then?It makes me feel like there are basically 3 or 4 people working on D&D anymore, and they plan to release about a book a year, with some adventures on the side, until... we all grow old and die, I guess?  I suppose at this point I'm just waiting for parent company X to finally sell off the brand (or one of their crazy ideas to actually work - like a new movie that doesn't horribly suck for some reason) to finally get some new money and new energy injected into the brand, because right now it feels like there's nothing.  The old guard seems to have been broken up and dispersed - and maybe they don't get along too well anymore anyway - and we need new people to lead the charge.</blockquote>

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