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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 4837536" data-attributes="member: 83805">Has anybody from WotC mentioned that this was official policy for 4E?If this turns out to be indeed official policy, then it wouldn't be too surprising to see 4E running a shorter commercial lifespan than 3E/3.5E's eight years.  This is also considering the rate at which WotC has been pumping out new 4E books so far, though not quite at the same pace as new 3.5E books were being pumped out during mid-2004 to 2007.  As a rough count, there were around 80 hardcover 3.5E WotC books published from mid-2003 to 2008 (including the core books, Expedition to ..., Forgotten Realms, and Eberron titles), and around 13 softcover modules.For the WotC 2000-2003 period during 3E (before 3.5E), the rate of books pumped out is considerably less than the 3.5E period.  As a rough count, there were around 31 splatbooks (including the core books) and 11 modules released for 3E by WotC from 2000 to mid-2003, of which almost half of the splatbooks were published as paperbacks books of less than 100 pages.  (After 2002, just about every WotC splatbook was published exclusively as a hardcover book of 160 pages or greater). The rate of new WotC D&D splatbooks being published during 3E was approximately one new book published per month, while during 3.5E it was appoximately two new books published per month (especially during the mid-2004 to 2007 period).  Looking at 4E so far, the rate of WotC splatbooks being published is back to around one new hardcover splatbook published per month.  (Arguably if one takes out all the 3.5E Forgotten Realms and Eberron books in the rough counts, then the rate of 3.5E books being released by WotC goes back down to approximately one new book published per month).</blockquote>

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