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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2919176" data-attributes="member: 7883">One can always hope.  The manner in which planar material has been brought into 3E has been entirely unsatisfactory....as you say, without the context of *what* the factions are, the prestige classes are relatively meaningless, as an example.That having been said, I do think there could be room for individual hardcovers.  That model seems to work for Dragonlance....WotC published the initial hardcover, though it was written by another company, and then the other company has successfully launched some very good support books, which cost WotC nothing.  There could be the contention that they detract money from being used to purchase more WotC books.....but then, on a personal level, given that WotC is not producing the settings I want, and only about half of the support books they create are of use to me (it used to be more, but it's been decreasing) they weren't going to get that money from me anyways.  I'm sure it's similar with others as well.If one was to use posts concerning that setting as an example of how much support remains, however, Dragonlance seems to have the most....though is that because it's being supported again, and fans of the Sovereign Press books are using the WotC message boards to discuss them?  Or is Dragonlance outright more popular?The order of popularity on the message boards appears to be:1-Dragonlance2-Dark Sun3-Greyhawk4-PlanescapeI am thinking that production of even core books for a few settings might actually cause a short-term spike in sales.....whereas the way they're going, in order to maintain revenues, they're going to need to do 4E sooner rather than later, because they'll eventually run out of topics that interest consumers.  Or maybe not.  I think for myself, 3E will be the last edition I actively support.  Can't afford to keep doing this, what with a basement full of 2nd Ed. books packed up in boxes.So, I guess one can always hope......though I suspect you're right, unfortunately.Banshee</blockquote>

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