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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 1177108" data-attributes="member: 4779">I'm on the boat that says they are trying to help each other.  Miniatures will help sell some books and the books with help sell some miniatures.  The only thing that is hurt is my wallet.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I was wondering the same thing about the next edition of D&D and miniatures.  Eventually, WotC will run out of new miniatures that people are really interested in.  There are only so many that people will buy before people either have all they want or simply don't want to spend and more money on the miniatures.  I can see them resorting to similar figures with different poses, paint jobs and the such when this happens. Additionally, the next edition may or may not suffer from the miniature sales.  Assuming all the basics of class are still there and the monsters don't change there will be no reason to create new miniatures.  I'm sure WotC could continue to sell the same core set for years and hope that holds people's attention but that doesn't seem to the direction they will stay with for, say 10 years down the road.  It will be interesting to see if the miniature sales lead to other things like selling dungeon elements like WizKids has done with their Mage Knight Dungeons line or maybe even branching into inexpensive customizable 3D dungeons (a la Mastermaze by Dwarvenforge). It's all good to me as long as the D&D license is going strong and still fully supported.</blockquote>

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