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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8877174" data-attributes="member: 18">I think they're going to just straight-up replace the line and stop printing the 5E PHB, DMG and MM, as well as ceasing to sell them on D&amp;D Beyond.I suspect they will still be available through Roll 20 and Fantasy Grounds, and I'm sure they'll remain on D&amp;D Beyond as &quot;Legacy&quot; for people who already have them, they just won't be available for new purchases. Physical copies will still be at your FLGS and Amazon and so on, but no new ones will be printed. People will complain that some handful of subclasses from the 5E PHB which didn't make the cut in the 1D&amp;D PHB aren't available anymore, but WotC will probably put revised versions of them in some early 1D&amp;D book.If 1D&amp;D is somehow unpopular, they'll probably try and tough it out, and to use marketing and D&amp;D Beyond to try and make up for that. I don't think there's the remotest chance they'll &quot;go back to 5E&quot; or start printing/selling it again. Even if it goes poorly, I'd expect them to just make 7E sooner, or for Hasbro to consider selling WotC, than for them to &quot;go back to 5E&quot;.But as it's a 1E-2E-type edition change, not a 3E-4E one, I think the worst case scenario is slightly less/slower sales than hoped, and any number of schemes can be used to increase adoption. Also don't expect to see any particularly successful attempts to &quot;Pathfinder&quot; the situation, because that only worked because of 4E being so different to 3.XE.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8877174, member: 18"] I think they're going to just straight-up replace the line and stop printing the 5E PHB, DMG and MM, as well as ceasing to sell them on D&D Beyond. I suspect they will still be available through Roll 20 and Fantasy Grounds, and I'm sure they'll remain on D&D Beyond as "Legacy" for people who already have them, they just won't be available for new purchases. Physical copies will still be at your FLGS and Amazon and so on, but no new ones will be printed. People will complain that some handful of subclasses from the 5E PHB which didn't make the cut in the 1D&D PHB aren't available anymore, but WotC will probably put revised versions of them in some early 1D&D book. If 1D&D is somehow unpopular, they'll probably try and tough it out, and to use marketing and D&D Beyond to try and make up for that. I don't think there's the remotest chance they'll "go back to 5E" or start printing/selling it again. Even if it goes poorly, I'd expect them to just make 7E sooner, or for Hasbro to consider selling WotC, than for them to "go back to 5E". But as it's a 1E-2E-type edition change, not a 3E-4E one, I think the worst case scenario is slightly less/slower sales than hoped, and any number of schemes can be used to increase adoption. Also don't expect to see any particularly successful attempts to "Pathfinder" the situation, because that only worked because of 4E being so different to 3.XE. [/QUOTE]

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