Friday, January 14, 2011  What is WotC Up To?   So let’s take a
look:  Bye-bye Minis   Um, well, maybe…  And Bye-bye Books?!?
Wyatt said...  IIRC Neverwinter is just a splatbook for the city
of Neverwinter, which barely got mentioned in the 4e Forgotten
Realms books.  Also, the books that were cut were going to be
pretty huge. One was basically the year's "here's a whole book
of random powers guys" and one was the year's "here's a whole
book of magic items guys."  jgbrowning said...  IMO, I think
they're transitioning further towards a digitally-delivered
game.  James Maliszewski said...  The difficulty for a RPG
publisher (of any size, though bigger ones find this more of an
issue) is that RPGs as traditionally published are open-ended
products that don't require any supplements. So, once the basic
set or core collection of books is purchased, there's no need
for anything else. Only a handful of players will buy
supplements of any sort, so it means most RPGs are doomed to a
downward spiral of sales, un