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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BluSponge" data-source="post: 5776791" data-attributes="member: 916">Hard to say.  If the game is indeed as modular as the developers are suggesting they are going for, maybe?  Maybe not.However, I think simply as a matter of economics, the days of the three book buy in are numbered.  At $35 a pop, it cost over $100 to buy into 4e.  That's a lot of scratch for an RPG these days, considering the buy in for most RPGs is about half of that.  I don't think lapsed/new players should have to drop an additional $20-30 to get a taste of the new edition before deciding to go all in.If WotC really wants to go back for that old school feel, I think a boxed set with three books that call back to the original brown box might be the way to go.  Not a Basic/Expert set, but the core system and everything you need for a lot of play in a $35-40 box (with a few bells and whistles, sure!).  Everything else goes on top of that.  No reason you can't release a "monster manual" that includes all the same monsters but with expanded description and fluff later.But that's just speculation on my part.  Package it in a way that works best for the game.  Not because AD&D1 did it a certain way.Tom</blockquote>