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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 4576130" data-attributes="member: 6533">Actually I think the most interesting piece of data is the least surprising.Namely, that 4e Supplement sales might be a little disapointing.You can argue with the veracity of that data, but if you take it at face value it makes a lot of sense.I mean could anyone argue that the supplement release patter for 4E - and this is disregarding 3rd party sales which I don't think anyone can argue are a shadow of 3E's - is much slower and more deliberate than the initial supplement release pattern for the last edition.We've had two setting books, two lines of adventures, one creature feature, one item book, and one class supplement.  Along with some associated paraphenalia that's all she wrote.Now some of that is just new edition anemia.  You look at the 3e supplements for last year and you had a much more developed line from the backlog of titles alone.But I also wonder if this isn't a result of deliberate strategy on WotCs part.  I mean, Martial Power is a much better supplement than it's 3e equivalent and even where the line is weak it ain't bad.  The FR player's guide could be called thin and incomplete, but the races and one class are both very interesting and it had two pretty sweet new mechanics with the spell scared multi-class only class structure and the regional benefits.  So on the whole I think we're seeing a much more consistent line than we have in the past and one that certainly seems to be aiming for a long term strategy in terms of growing the market and saving the base.</blockquote>

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