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<blockquote data-quote="gyor" data-source="post: 7499680" data-attributes="member: 6670153"><p>I'm FR fan, but it's more complex then that. A big part of FRs top dog status comes a variety of reasons, from eating some of it competing Settings like Kara Tur, Zakhara, Gloamwrought, to the profitable and long lasting novel line, to the Video Games, but also internal politics, Greyhawk was linked to Gygax, and Dragonlance was very focused on a single primary story for it's identity (of course it had other stories). That made FR the go to setting, it had so many things in it favour. </p><p></p><p> I think just because stuff like Spelljammer wasn't popular back in the day, as some other settings for example, doesn't mean that you couldn't sell it today to a younger audience. Figure it's weaknesses, tighten the writing, give it some compelling characters, and most importantly is the marketing campaign. </p><p></p><p> Yeah WotC has a plan on how it's going to market these settings differently, genre focus + using the streamers to se it to younger people. Nostilogia will set to some older fans, useful mechanics that are poachable to others, but it's the streamers that will sell these settings to younger gamers, and other twitch/YouTube fans. </p><p></p><p> I hear Eberron is doing well, although I don't remember where I heard that, but I do know Ravnica is 12# on the Amazon's best selling TRPG books, ahead of a bunch of other 5e books, and expect expecting that to go higher when more focus is upon it as it gets closer to release.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gyor, post: 7499680, member: 6670153"] I'm FR fan, but it's more complex then that. A big part of FRs top dog status comes a variety of reasons, from eating some of it competing Settings like Kara Tur, Zakhara, Gloamwrought, to the profitable and long lasting novel line, to the Video Games, but also internal politics, Greyhawk was linked to Gygax, and Dragonlance was very focused on a single primary story for it's identity (of course it had other stories). That made FR the go to setting, it had so many things in it favour. I think just because stuff like Spelljammer wasn't popular back in the day, as some other settings for example, doesn't mean that you couldn't sell it today to a younger audience. Figure it's weaknesses, tighten the writing, give it some compelling characters, and most importantly is the marketing campaign. Yeah WotC has a plan on how it's going to market these settings differently, genre focus + using the streamers to se it to younger people. Nostilogia will set to some older fans, useful mechanics that are poachable to others, but it's the streamers that will sell these settings to younger gamers, and other twitch/YouTube fans. I hear Eberron is doing well, although I don't remember where I heard that, but I do know Ravnica is 12# on the Amazon's best selling TRPG books, ahead of a bunch of other 5e books, and expect expecting that to go higher when more focus is upon it as it gets closer to release. [/QUOTE]
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