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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6537402" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I don't believe we'll see any campaign settings for quite a while, because any setting you may want you can buy off of dndclassics.com</p><p></p><p>All those products are usable with your 5E game. The only things they are missing are 5E version NPC stats and a couple mechanics for setting-specific character generation-- and those they've now begun giving us online. So there's absolutely no reason why they need to reprint all of those hundreds of thousands of words... spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for thousands of man-hours of work... just to produce products that end up being 85% identical to ones already out there.</p><p></p><p>I mean let's be honest here. Is there *anything* in the 4E Eberron Campaign Setting book that was better or more useful than what you got in the 3E Eberron book (except the mechanics for the 4 new races, one class, dragonmarks, and descriptions of where the new 4E Player's Handbook races are meant to appear?) I own both books. And other than the stats... there is nothing in those two 4E books I found that probably justified the amount of money they spent on producing it. Heck... that's probably the reason they originally were going to advance the 4E Eberron storyline 2 years... just to write *something new* that made the book seem necessary and not just a complete copy/paste job from the 3E one.</p><p></p><p>I know some players have an allergy to buying and using stuff off of dndclassics.com (which is ironic, considering the amount of people who were CRUCIFYING WotC at the start of 4E for not making these products available to consumers then-- oh how times change...) but those products are the easiest and cheapest way to produce a whole crapload of products for people to use, and they can spend what little man-hours they have remaining in the office to make very specific products that are meant to get as many players as possible to buy it. After all... if new products only appear every 4 months but this dearth inspires 1000 players to buy them... *as opposed* to producing two products in that same time but which only 500 players buy each one (because if one doesn't do it for them they know they can just wait two months for another one that does)... WotC has sold the same amount of product but have had to spend twice as many resources for the same result.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6537402, member: 7006"] I don't believe we'll see any campaign settings for quite a while, because any setting you may want you can buy off of dndclassics.com All those products are usable with your 5E game. The only things they are missing are 5E version NPC stats and a couple mechanics for setting-specific character generation-- and those they've now begun giving us online. So there's absolutely no reason why they need to reprint all of those hundreds of thousands of words... spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for thousands of man-hours of work... just to produce products that end up being 85% identical to ones already out there. I mean let's be honest here. Is there *anything* in the 4E Eberron Campaign Setting book that was better or more useful than what you got in the 3E Eberron book (except the mechanics for the 4 new races, one class, dragonmarks, and descriptions of where the new 4E Player's Handbook races are meant to appear?) I own both books. And other than the stats... there is nothing in those two 4E books I found that probably justified the amount of money they spent on producing it. Heck... that's probably the reason they originally were going to advance the 4E Eberron storyline 2 years... just to write *something new* that made the book seem necessary and not just a complete copy/paste job from the 3E one. I know some players have an allergy to buying and using stuff off of dndclassics.com (which is ironic, considering the amount of people who were CRUCIFYING WotC at the start of 4E for not making these products available to consumers then-- oh how times change...) but those products are the easiest and cheapest way to produce a whole crapload of products for people to use, and they can spend what little man-hours they have remaining in the office to make very specific products that are meant to get as many players as possible to buy it. After all... if new products only appear every 4 months but this dearth inspires 1000 players to buy them... *as opposed* to producing two products in that same time but which only 500 players buy each one (because if one doesn't do it for them they know they can just wait two months for another one that does)... WotC has sold the same amount of product but have had to spend twice as many resources for the same result. [/QUOTE]
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