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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5249806" data-attributes="member: 82106">I'm of the opinion that the PHB series is at an end. As you said there's just not a lot more core subsystem, feat, and race type material that needs to be added to the game. Players have a HUGE number of options right now. With the bulk of all the classes that are likely to be produced also already out there I suspect they were just not able to pull together enough really good quality new material to fill out an entire PHB4. On top of that my suspicion is that they really do intend to put out all future books in a trade paperback format. Given those two factors and the fact that the game has hit a refresh with Essentials I suspect they've taken the opportunity to make some changes to the overall format of releases. Instead of having Power books and PHBs we'll just see Player Options books from now on. Those can incorporate both new options for existing classes/builds and totally new stuff more easily. They don't have to worry so much about what has to go in what type of book and having enough stuff to fill out a book with a very specific theme. Instead whatever new stuff is ready to roll out can just go into the next PO book when its ready. Its faster and since honestly most players want it all anyway I think the current scheme is a bit overly elaborate and doesn't do much for people.The other thing is, if they're going to want to rerelease improved versions of all the stuff in all the power books and PHBs eventually anyway there's not so much reason to break it up as they did before. With a different distribution of content you're more likely to get people to buy the new books as they probably have a mix of stuff that overlaps old stuff and brand new stuff. Of course its quite possible they WILL release certain types of hardback books still. I could see the general supplements ala Draconomicon still coming out in hardback. There probably aren't a vast number of those left to do anyway. I mean what more do we need, a Feywild book, a Shadowfell book, and really not much else, maybe a Nine Hells book and/or a Far Realms book. Casual players probably won't buy those things much anyway and the real core 4e audience will like having them hardbound.</blockquote>

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