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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6043105" data-attributes="member: 22424">The future of the game is probably not books at all. If they're building for the future, 5e will have a very small core set of rules, and then a whole bunch of 'stuff' - powers, spells, magic items, monsters, etc, etc, etc. Each of these 'stuff' should, ideally, be sized to fit nicely (and readably) on an iPhone screen. And the primary delivery mechanism will be via a Compendium-like app within the DDI.A few years down the line, if they even still produce physical books at all, the splatbooks will most likely resemble &quot;Martial Power&quot; and the like from 4e days - essentially, just a massive listing off all the new powers (spells, magic items, monsters, etc) that the book includes.Perhaps ironically, with DDI WotC hit on almost the perfect vehicle for D&amp;D for the future. But they jumped the gun by about 5 years, before the technology was really there to support it. And in doing so, they may well have poisoned the well for the next edition doing the same.(Necessary boilerplate: all strictly IMO, of course. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6043105, member: 22424"] The future of the game is probably not books at all. If they're building for the future, 5e will have a very small core set of rules, and then a whole bunch of 'stuff' - powers, spells, magic items, monsters, etc, etc, etc. Each of these 'stuff' should, ideally, be sized to fit nicely (and readably) on an iPhone screen. And the primary delivery mechanism will be via a Compendium-like app within the DDI. A few years down the line, if they even still produce physical books at all, the splatbooks will most likely resemble "Martial Power" and the like from 4e days - essentially, just a massive listing off all the new powers (spells, magic items, monsters, etc) that the book includes. Perhaps ironically, with DDI WotC hit on almost the perfect vehicle for D&D for the future. But they jumped the gun by about 5 years, before the technology was really there to support it. And in doing so, they may well have poisoned the well for the next edition doing the same. (Necessary boilerplate: all strictly IMO, of course. :) ) [/QUOTE]

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