D&D 5E (2024) PAX WotC Dungeons and Dragons speculation thread.

[Reynard]

The 4e preview books were player-facing, as were some of the digest-sized books. The preview books were pretty short. Maybe not the digest-sized ones, but they would've been a lot shorter if they'd been full size ...

Murder in Baldur's Gate and Legacy of the Crystal Shard each came as two short soft-cover booklets wrapped in a DM screen. One booklet was the adventure, the other was a gazetteer. The gazetteers could be shown to the players.

So, yes?

I think it is pretty cvlear that what we are talking about here are things like Sword and Fist. Only 3.0 did that.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

There were two soft cover 4E books with PC mechanical options and lore material, one for dragonborn and one for tieflings.

 

[mearls]

Nope, and they were sales disasters.

The 3.0 ones did well! However, hardcovers do even better. I think it was in late 90s that TTRPG publishers figured out that people typically much preferred hardcover books over softcover.

 

[ersatzphil]

The 3.0 ones did well! However, hardcovers do even better. I think it was in late 90s that TTRPG publishers figured out that people typically much preferred hardcover books over softcover.

I was going to say - everyone I knew who played had at least one or two of those in the 3e era.

 

[darjr]

The 3.0 ones did well! However, hardcovers do even better. I think it was in late 90s that TTRPG publishers figured out that people typically much preferred hardcover books over softcover.

I bought one of the 3rd basic sets partly because it had a soft cover PHB in it.