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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6357443" data-attributes="member: 22424">It depends what they do with Morningstar.If Morningstar is like the DDI, in that all the 'crunch' material from the books finds itself incorporated in the database pretty much immediately, that probably cuts off sales of splatbooks at the knees - the people who are likely to subscribe have a big overlap with those likely to buy splats, but they're much less likely to do both.If, on the other hand, Morningstar doesn't automatically include all the crunch, or does so only after a significant delay (say 3-6 months), or if the splatbooks are very heavy in non-crunch*, then there's probably still a market for splatbooks.* I'm not sure on this last one. My gut feeling is that most people buy splatbooks for the crunchy stuff to add to their characters, and anything non-crunchy is largely ignored. In which case, the important question is whether (and when) Morningstar includes the crunch, regardless of whether that's 10% of the book or 90%.(Oh, yeah: FWIW, I'm quite happy for WotC to do splatbooks for 5e. I don't intend to buy them, though.)</blockquote>