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#1 rethgryn Dec 27, 2011 1:39:46	When 4th edition came out the plan was to have a new players handbook, monster manual, and worldbook every year. I just saw next year's release calendar and again, it seems the releases have slowed even more. What gives? There are only 2 player books, a module, and a supplement for an already bloated campaign setting: Forgotten Realms, which I have always hated. Where's the previously promised Ravenloft stand alone game and the previously hinted at Dragonlance content?
#2 Jaden.Shadowcraft Dec 27, 2011 3:04:33	When 4th edition came out the plan was to have a new players handbook, monster manual, and worldbook every year. I just saw next year's release calendar and again, it seems the releases have slowed even more. What gives? There are only 2 player books, a module, and a supplement for an already bloated campaign setting: Forgotten Realms, which I have always hated. Where's the previously promised Ravenloft stand alone game and the previously hinted at Dragonlance content? We have seen this type of behavior time and time again.  WotC releases too much content that they simply aren't equipped to support.  When the backlash from the public gets to be too much, they simply hit the reset button and release a new edition.   5th edition D&D will be announced at the 2012 GenCon with its release in 2013.  Game reset.
#3 Silver_Blaze Dec 27, 2011 8:59:41	5th edition D&D will be announced at the 2012 GenCon with its release in 2013.  Game reset.  And you are basing this on solid evidence?
#4 thespaceinvader Dec 27, 2011 9:17:12	It's safe to say that no, he is not.
#5 The_Jester Dec 27, 2011 12:32:00	When 4th edition came out the plan was to have a new players handbook, monster manual, and worldbook every year. I just saw next year's release calendar and again, it seems the releases have slowed even more. What gives? There are only 2 player books, a module, and a supplement for an already bloated campaign setting: Forgotten Realms, which I have always hated. Where's the previously promised Ravenloft stand alone game and the previously hinted at Dragonlance content? We have seen this type of behavior time and time again.  WotC releases too much content that they simply aren't equipped to support.  When the backlash from the public gets to be too much, they simply hit the reset button and release a new edition.   5th edition D&D will be announced at the 2012 GenCon with its release in 2013.  Game reset.  Except... WotC released a book-a-month like clockwork for the entire life of 3e. There was no slowdown. We haven't seen this before.  There was a backlash. 4e had too much content too quickly, and I think WotC realized the new annual PHB was not working. Because they required so many brand new classes and races that did little but fill space. The PHBs also didn't tell buyers what was inside, what the focus was. They were non-evocative titles. Meanwhile, there was the increasing complaints of imbalance and large Updates/ errata.  So WotC slowed down their release schedal to focus on quality, and flavourful books.
#6 chuck_rocks_dnd Jan 01, 2012 11:04:33	I can understand from a business point of veiw that they want to make money, but what they don't realize is that the new fan base that they were trying to attract cannot afford to purchase a new book every month.  The fan base they already had was still a bit bitter from the whole 3 to 3.5 move.  It's ridiculous to have to keep replace these books all over again. The whole switch from 3.5 to 4e caused a major backlash in itself; not to mention the changes to the FR world that were unvieled in the release of the FR PHB.  The biggest problem I think Wizards has gotten themselves into (which was mentioned in several above posts) is that they are saturating the game with way way way too much content that is not needed.  Obviously their employees have never heard of KISS (keep it simple stupid).  Some of 4e has been simplified from 3.5 (ie. skills); great job there, but they seemed to have stopped with the skills.  They seem to think that we need to have a ton of classes and races when most of them just overcomplicate the game.  Instead of releasing a crap ton of books with needless races and classes why not support what you have with a passion.  By this I mean take the content they already have and give us stuff to do with it.  Put more time creating adventures modules with nice maps and rich content.  I'd gladly pay $20 to purchase a new adventure module...even though most of us probably make up our own campaigns, those modules give us NPC's, maps, and ideas that we may not have thought up. So in summary support a smaller amount of book content with supplemental content in the adventure modules.  Although, I'm paying a subscription fee to this Insider stuff and half the content that was promised and flaunted in front of our faces at the launch of the Insider content is no where to be found...can I get some support there too.
#7 robertread3 Jan 01, 2012 15:27:52	recently they have been relasing new content as new encounters seasons come along  undermountion - encounters in general fury of the wastewalker - dark sun keep on the boarder lands - essentials  ghost tower of invernious - (only one without a product to support it) dark legacy of evard - heroes of shadow lost crown of neverwinter - neverwinter campagin setting  beyond the cristal cave - heroes of the feywild next encounters season - elemantal source book so, this is likley what they will do as they have the encounters program to support their new products as well as a way for players to test and try out the new stuff in real play, they also release a fortune card set along with the new book which takes time in and of itself. when we run the encounters season at my home store the 1st 4 weeks are a bunch of people just there to try new classes and then it wittles down to regulars. so to answer your question, what happend to the releases is marketing and promotion