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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 6534740" data-attributes="member: 6701829">Honestly, I think the only real disagreement is that last point, and really we won't know for at least a year or two who's right. It comes down to whether you think the brand-centric tie-in strategy (keep a lightly-supported RPG alive to build the fan-base for the D&D movies / video games / board games / action figures, etc. where the REAL money is to be made) is a smarter strategy than catering to table-top gamers and investing in putting out products for them to buy in the hopes that they'll buy enough to justify the expense.Clearly Wizards is pursuing the former strategy, and that means they're probably not going to put out enough product fast enough to keep you interested in 5E. I don't think anyone would begrudge you for leaving an edition behind because the lack of support left you cold. But frankly a large and healthy fan-base can be maintained on just the core books and the back catalog alone, anything else is just gravy. We'll get player's options stuff at least twice a year (themed splatbook accompanying the adventure paths, or free PDF in the case of Princes of the Apocalypse), and they'll come out with campaign setting stuff and more monster books eventually. Some folks might abandon ship because they're not happy with the amount of content, but that's not the audience WotC is targeting, the casual players are. It's unfortunate that you find yourself out in the cold re: support, but I'm not convinced that the collective RPG market has enough spending power to compete year after year with casual players who never spend anything on RPG books but would go collectively throw millions of dollars at a D&D movie or video game.</blockquote>

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