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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5570006" data-attributes="member: 94022">My three coppers:As to question #1:  I think this is actually a decent idea on their part.  They are trying to make their printed products as versatile as possible, thereby making them appealing to as wide an audience as possible.  While I like bards, sorcs and wizards enough to purchase an Arcane Power II, I'm not really all that big a fan of the primal classes for the most part and thus would be less inclined to buy Primal Power II, etc.  By making their print products versatile, hopefully more people will purchase them (excluding the DM-targetted products of course).As to #2:  I agree that this is interesting.  To a certain extent I think this falls within their versatility guidelines I mention above.  While there are a lot of people (myself included) who are dying for more epic material, there are also a lot of people who could care less at this point.  I do agree though that simply adding more epic monsters to the monster vaults would go a long way -- without the need for an epic only monster vault.  As for training themselves, I'm thinking/hoping, that they are talking about training themselves on what epic tier should feel like.  What is it that epic level heroes are needed for?  What should they be doing?  What are appropriate epic tier story lines?, etc.  Considering that they have previously mentioned an epic-tier adventure arc coming out in Dungeon I think that this could be what they are talking about.  There's obviously less financial risk with a DDi publication than a print publication.  I think they will likely be wanting to wait and see what the feedback on the epic tier adventure arc is before they consider releasing an epic tier print adventure.  Though honestly, I again agree with Aegeri that the main issue is monsters, then possibly followed closely with general epic tier story ideas.  I don't think they need to publish in print format epic tier adventures and I'm still skeptical as to whether they actually need an epic tier box set per se as opposed to simply going with a DMG 3, and a Monster Vault that includes epic support but is not exclusively epic.</blockquote>

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