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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6842872" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Anecdotal evidence here on my part, but I haven't seen this bare out in any real way. When 5e hit the shelves a year'ish ago it sold quickly. After that, it sold consistently; a dozen PHB's would come in and they'd be sold within the month (I live in what others would consider a 'small town'; about 23k people...yeah, it's the capitol city of the Yukon). This rate is maintained with pretty much every 5e book that's been put out. A dozen get in, all are get sold out in a consistent time. No, it's not "gone in a day", but as I said, for us up here in the Great White North, it's a telling thing.I would hazard a guess that the folks who are seeing and/or complaining about lack of "stuff" are the ones that either have so little time to put into a campaign...probably shouldn't be trying to play RPG's; or got into the hobby with the end of 2e or beginning of 3e. In those latter cases, they are just used to having "stuff". The 3.x+ version in particular didn't teach or encourage DM's or players to use their imaginations and make <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> up. Those versions encouraged DM's and players to throw money out and buy a book that had new stuff in it...and then another book...and another...and another...etc. Or, to put it another way, "old schoolers" like myself don't need or even really want "more rules". We find more enjoyment thinking about what we like, using our imaginations, taking a few hours to write out what we need/want, and use that for the next game. If I need more "earth based" spells, I'll make them up. If I need some "earth based creatures", I'll make them up. If I want a new underground-focused druid-ranger type class or archtype, I'll make it up. If I need rules for suffocation, air quality, or how much space a person needs to squish through a small opening, I'll make it up. To old schoolers, this is one of the things we enjoy. Er, at least I do. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Anyway...yeah...with 5e focused more on 'story' and less on 'splat', I think they (WotC) have expectations of revenue to match. I don't think they'll "turn off people" who come into the hobby...and, from yet more anecdotal evidence, 5e seems to have brought back a lot of older players as well as introduced a lot of new ones. So if this demographic is high enough, what they will expect is "one hardback every 6 or so months", and that will be normal. It's the poor folks who loved and got used to the "book a week" club that 3.x/PF/4e was doing that are going to complain and threaten to leave because "there's no stuff".^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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