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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5909779" data-attributes="member: 54877">4 books, following roughly the BECMI RC + AD&D model:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Core book - single book with core system plus a few of the mainstream options, capable of running a handful of classes and races, everything you need, similar to BECMI RC, to max level. Information not repeated in books below.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">PHB - more classes, more races, more feats, more spells, more (mundane or very common magic) equipment, more player rules options.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">DMG - more advice, more traps, more magic items, more examples, more campaign building tools, more rules options.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">MM - more monsters, more monster rules options.</li> </ul>PHB/DMG/MM are "more, more, more!" of what is already in the single book.  I think that will lead to books of roughly equal size, while keeping the information in the core book relatively simple but robust.  With that core information out of the way, the traditional trilogy can then focus on providing what their titles say. Moreover, this solves a big sales issue in that now two of the four main books are ones that dedicated players might want--but does so while allowing people on a budget to readily get by with one book.</blockquote>