Yes and no. Player's Handbook Races: Humans is a 32 page magazine. It also comes out 3 months after the last material made for use with 4th edition D&D (the Rules Compendium, which according to Greg Bilsland's Twitter will have "significant updates" to the core rules). It's weird and incongruous. But it's not a real book, and never has been.hogarth wrote:I just checked the product list:FrankTrollman wrote:So we're calling it. 4th edition D&D gets its last book around the September mark, with the Rules Compendium. There is never going to be an Arcane Power 2 or a Shadow Power or a Darksun Player's Guide or any of that. The DMG 3 will not happen.
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Catalog.aspx
Isn't the book "Player's Handbook Races: Humans" a 4th edition supplement? It's (supposedly) due out in December. Or do you think they're just flushing out the pipeline?
My impression is that it is on the schedule in case the Rules Compendium defies expectations and revives interest in the game line. Since they have 4th edition materials "all the way to the end of the year" then they could start producing materials again in 2011 and claim it was all a big misunderstanding. Pretty decent way to cover bases, it's not like PHR: Humans costs them anything - it's just a 32 page magazine after all.
-Username17