D&D 5E Tyranny of Dragons: The New Edition?

[the Jester]

Yeah, but, lets be honest. For you and me, there is DDI. If you don't want to buy that module, or whatever, you spring for the DDI, and get all the crunch you want.

You're making a huge assumption about how soon and how well a DDI for 5e will appear.

Given that, from all appearances, 5e won't have such a humungous level of complexity that many of its players will actually need a character builder and the like, I suspect that DDI will be less successful for 5e than it has been for 4e; there simply isn't the same level of need for it.

Granted, for those who insist on physical products, they might be a bit screwed - being forced to buy adventures for the crunch - but, at some point WOTC has to go with whatever is going to net them the most money. Which, IMO, will be a DDI compendium. Maybe a yearly "Crunch Compendium" might not be a bad idea either.

I can't imagine that, once the game is released, each adventure will continue to have all the rules stuff in it, too. Especially once the core books are out- people are already up in arms about errata. This would be a substantially worse approach imho, and one that would see me give up on 5e (which I'm really looking forward to) post-haste.

 

[Hussar]

It will be interesting to see what they do here. I do think DDI has made them money but I also think it really cut into their book sales. Hopefully they learned a lot from 4e to made the electronic approach work with the books better. At least better for them. The 4e strategy worked for me.

Well, if the books are flavour heavy, then the DDI shouldn't be cutting into sales too much. After all, DDI contains almost no flavour at all. So, setting manuals, adventure modules, that sort of thing, is where i would expect to see much of the new crunch to initially appear.

Then perhaps some sort of yearly compendium for those who want the print version. Kind of like Pathfinder's Advanced Player's guide and that sort of thing. Instead of each class having it's own crunch book.

That's my magic 8 ball prediction anyway.