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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9249251" data-attributes="member: 54840">I think its important to remember that prediction by experts (which I think includes a lot of us here) is highly inaccurate. How many people speculated that Hasbro would try to violate their own license agreement two years ago?I think we can probably draw some trend-lines though. I think WOTC definitely wants to focus more on digital tools – particularly D&amp;D Beyond. They've clearly been experimenting with lower-priced Beyond-only material. I think we're certainly going to see printed core books because those sold, and continue to sell, really well; but other books may move to more digital only space. Maybe they put out lots of small stuff and then build big books with the best of it in there like new Xanathar or Tasha books.I don't know what's going to happen to the rest of 5e. It's open now, which is awesome. There's more cool 5e material than we could ever run in our whole lives, frankly. I'm sure we'll see more stuff and I'm sure it'll be awesome.But imagine this for a minute. There are millions of new players to D&amp;D where this is their first edition. There could be a lot of nostalgia for that in twenty years to capture the fun of playing D&amp;D at the table again. Luckily there are millions of copies of the PHB in circulation and lots of other variants being published.For me, I'm going to be building my fun little city sourcebook this year and doing the same stuff I've done for the past 15 years or so and watch what happens.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SlyFlourish, post: 9249251, member: 54840"] I think its important to remember that prediction by experts (which I think includes a lot of us here) is highly inaccurate. How many people speculated that Hasbro would try to violate their own license agreement two years ago? I think we can probably draw some trend-lines though. I think WOTC definitely wants to focus more on digital tools – particularly D&D Beyond. They've clearly been experimenting with lower-priced Beyond-only material. I think we're certainly going to see printed core books because those sold, and continue to sell, really well; but other books may move to more digital only space. Maybe they put out lots of small stuff and then build big books with the best of it in there like new Xanathar or Tasha books. I don't know what's going to happen to the rest of 5e. It's open now, which is awesome. There's more cool 5e material than we could ever run in our whole lives, frankly. I'm sure we'll see more stuff and I'm sure it'll be awesome. But imagine this for a minute. There are millions of new players to D&D where this is their [I]first[/I] edition. There could be a lot of nostalgia for that in twenty years to capture the fun of playing D&D at the table again. Luckily there are millions of copies of the PHB in circulation and lots of other variants being published. For me, I'm going to be building my fun little city sourcebook this year and doing the same stuff I've done for the past 15 years or so and watch what happens. [/QUOTE]

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