Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
How WotC will approach the campaign settings?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6540263" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>It *is* a market, yes. However, it's a market consisting of young people too young to have played 3rd edition, who also did not play 4th edition, who also do not want to buy gaming books electronically via PDF, nor apparently buy older books online from places like Amazon (where you can get the hardcover 3E campaign setting book Used starting at like $16.00). So while it is a market... I'm not liable to believe it's a large market. Certainly not large enough to make WotC trust out of hand that they could spend the money required to make a 5E version of the 3E book and have it actually sell enough. Not without foreknowledge of what their other 5E non-core books will actually do in the marketplace.</p><p></p><p>But maybe they do. I don't know. I could be wrong. But I do think it's telling that when Mearls was asked about it specifically at GenCon that he said it just wasn't something they were wanting to dive right into. Which I can understand, seeing as how there *are* Realms setting options out there for people-- PDFs and new and used hardcover books.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6540263, member: 7006"] It *is* a market, yes. However, it's a market consisting of young people too young to have played 3rd edition, who also did not play 4th edition, who also do not want to buy gaming books electronically via PDF, nor apparently buy older books online from places like Amazon (where you can get the hardcover 3E campaign setting book Used starting at like $16.00). So while it is a market... I'm not liable to believe it's a large market. Certainly not large enough to make WotC trust out of hand that they could spend the money required to make a 5E version of the 3E book and have it actually sell enough. Not without foreknowledge of what their other 5E non-core books will actually do in the marketplace. But maybe they do. I don't know. I could be wrong. But I do think it's telling that when Mearls was asked about it specifically at GenCon that he said it just wasn't something they were wanting to dive right into. Which I can understand, seeing as how there *are* Realms setting options out there for people-- PDFs and new and used hardcover books. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
How WotC will approach the campaign settings?
Top