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<blockquote data-quote="Camelot" data-source="post: 5249726" data-attributes="member: 82617"><p>I really hope you're right, except for the last paragraph.</p><p> </p><p>Having three lines of books would be interesting, but I do think that there won't be any more Player's Handbooks. They're publishing fewer and fewer new races, which removes a whole chapter of the hypothetical PH4. They're running out of general feats, making the feat chapter very thin. If they published PH4, it would be half the size of the other PHs. That's why I think they're switching to these Player's Options, which are smaller and paperback.</p><p> </p><p>Publishing new material for old classes is a possibility. It could be like secondary power sources: a wizard who takes some shadow powers is Arcane primary, Shadow secondary. This is a very real possibility, as we have seen a paragon path for the warlord (in either FRPG or MotP, I forget) that has powers with the shadow keyword instead of the martial keyword.</p><p> </p><p>Going even further, maybe they'll start publishing more of these Options books for the other power sources. Martial dabbling in divine, Primal dabbling in psionic, it would be really cool and greatly expand the game, allowing for characters to have two power sources without need for multiclassing. It would make character possibilities very versatile, and that is awesome.</p><p> </p><p>I really hope they have new classes in there, though. We need a necromancer, a blackguard, a witch, whatever, we need shadow classes. I would also really hope to see new player races of the evil inclination, like goblins, kobolds, hobgoblins, and hopefully some new ones too. It would be cool to run a monster campaign; misfits trying to fight for good when they're shunned for supposedly being evil. But, I digress.</p><p> </p><p>All in all, I can't wait for Heroes of Shadow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Camelot, post: 5249726, member: 82617"] I really hope you're right, except for the last paragraph. Having three lines of books would be interesting, but I do think that there won't be any more Player's Handbooks. They're publishing fewer and fewer new races, which removes a whole chapter of the hypothetical PH4. They're running out of general feats, making the feat chapter very thin. If they published PH4, it would be half the size of the other PHs. That's why I think they're switching to these Player's Options, which are smaller and paperback. Publishing new material for old classes is a possibility. It could be like secondary power sources: a wizard who takes some shadow powers is Arcane primary, Shadow secondary. This is a very real possibility, as we have seen a paragon path for the warlord (in either FRPG or MotP, I forget) that has powers with the shadow keyword instead of the martial keyword. Going even further, maybe they'll start publishing more of these Options books for the other power sources. Martial dabbling in divine, Primal dabbling in psionic, it would be really cool and greatly expand the game, allowing for characters to have two power sources without need for multiclassing. It would make character possibilities very versatile, and that is awesome. I really hope they have new classes in there, though. We need a necromancer, a blackguard, a witch, whatever, we need shadow classes. I would also really hope to see new player races of the evil inclination, like goblins, kobolds, hobgoblins, and hopefully some new ones too. It would be cool to run a monster campaign; misfits trying to fight for good when they're shunned for supposedly being evil. But, I digress. All in all, I can't wait for Heroes of Shadow. [/QUOTE]
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