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<blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 7911204" data-attributes="member: 6778044"><p>I would disagree that Strahd and Yawning Portal are “Realms-centric.” They have simply provided a Realms starting point as an option because it is likely that you might have played one of the many APs set in the Realms.</p><p></p><p>Now we have Eberron, Saltmarsh (a teeny bit of Greyhawk), other Greyhawk plus in Yawning Portal, Ravnica, Ravenloft, and Wildemount.</p><p></p><p>While there is undoubtedly a group for each of those settings and others that would welcome more of them, I think it would be somewhat problematic to release, say, three Ravenloft adventures in row. As they want to expand beyond the Realms, with the Adventures League and the likelihood that many players want to continue with some of their characters, maintaining some consistency makes sense. At least for every other release when they are only releasing two APs a year.</p><p></p><p>In 3e they embraced Greyhawk as the official setting, but failed to support it. In 4e they attempted to define and promote the “default setting” by creating a new D&D lore and setting that (in theory anyway) wasn’t a derivative mishmash of many influential sources. Eberron is a bit too different to be the default swords and sorcery setting.</p><p></p><p>With the Realms as the best seller, it just makes sense to work with that as your best IP as a starting point. That becomes a bit of a self-fulfilling approach, but the reality is that’s just fine, and the percentage of “other than Realms” releases are likely to continue to increase.</p><p></p><p>The vast majority of players really don’t care. They aren’t the types to be debating such things on forums like this, and are more likely to choose an AP because it sounds interesting. They are relatively self-contained and I suspect the most common way to play is to create new characters for each new AP, and there is little continuity between them. Since new players continue to pick up the game, there are a lot of choices now, rather than to pick them up as they are released.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ilbranteloth, post: 7911204, member: 6778044"] I would disagree that Strahd and Yawning Portal are “Realms-centric.” They have simply provided a Realms starting point as an option because it is likely that you might have played one of the many APs set in the Realms. Now we have Eberron, Saltmarsh (a teeny bit of Greyhawk), other Greyhawk plus in Yawning Portal, Ravnica, Ravenloft, and Wildemount. While there is undoubtedly a group for each of those settings and others that would welcome more of them, I think it would be somewhat problematic to release, say, three Ravenloft adventures in row. As they want to expand beyond the Realms, with the Adventures League and the likelihood that many players want to continue with some of their characters, maintaining some consistency makes sense. At least for every other release when they are only releasing two APs a year. In 3e they embraced Greyhawk as the official setting, but failed to support it. In 4e they attempted to define and promote the “default setting” by creating a new D&D lore and setting that (in theory anyway) wasn’t a derivative mishmash of many influential sources. Eberron is a bit too different to be the default swords and sorcery setting. With the Realms as the best seller, it just makes sense to work with that as your best IP as a starting point. That becomes a bit of a self-fulfilling approach, but the reality is that’s just fine, and the percentage of “other than Realms” releases are likely to continue to increase. The vast majority of players really don’t care. They aren’t the types to be debating such things on forums like this, and are more likely to choose an AP because it sounds interesting. They are relatively self-contained and I suspect the most common way to play is to create new characters for each new AP, and there is little continuity between them. Since new players continue to pick up the game, there are a lot of choices now, rather than to pick them up as they are released. [/QUOTE]
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