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<blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 5769859" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>You'd obviously know this a lot better than I would, but what the heck do you expect to be selling in years 4-8 (or 10!!) of an edition's life cycle? The evidence of 3 editions of WotC D&amp;D (3e, 3.5, and 4e) -- and three of WotC Star Wars RPGs, for that matter -- say that after you do splatbooks for all the core classes, psionics, and the core setting books for a few major settings, further expansion material is really scraping the bottom of the barrel -- and that gets done within three years or so unless you're publishing things really slowly (which slows the uptake of a new edition, so you don't want to do that). And WotC has been pretty adamant that adventures don't really sell well enough to try and build a business model around them. So even if WotC wanted to go 8 years between editions of D&amp;D (which they never have done, or even come close to doing), how could they?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="drothgery, post: 5769859, member: 360"] You'd obviously know this a lot better than I would, but what the heck do you expect to be selling in years 4-8 (or 10!!) of an edition's life cycle? The evidence of 3 editions of WotC D&D (3e, 3.5, and 4e) -- and three of WotC Star Wars RPGs, for that matter -- say that after you do splatbooks for all the core classes, psionics, and the core setting books for a few major settings, further expansion material is really scraping the bottom of the barrel -- and that gets done within three years or so unless you're publishing things really slowly (which slows the uptake of a new edition, so you don't want to do that). And WotC has been pretty adamant that adventures don't really sell well enough to try and build a business model around them. So even if WotC wanted to go 8 years between editions of D&D (which they never have done, or even come close to doing), how could they? [/QUOTE]

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