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<blockquote data-quote="Rystefn" data-source="post: 9246351" data-attributes="member: 7043460"><p>If.</p><p>I strongly suspect that that the overwhelming majority of adventures don't break that way. Lets be clear here: I'm sure there are a fair handful of people on these forums that have some adventure or another more than once for completely difference groups. But the percentage of books sold that get used that way can be safely rounded to zero. The number of adventure books that used to run an adventure to completion even once is almost certainly a pretty small fraction of the ones that actually see a table, which is absolutely a small fraction of the ones sold. And I explicitly picked a popular and enduring one to even estimate the number as high as I did.</p><p></p><p>Yes, we deserve better. But we're not going to get it. If we were, it would have already happened decades ago. The bulk of the books are sold to people who are perfectly happy to read them and never play. This is true for adventures, for PHBs, even for entire game systems. It's true among the super casuals, and it's even more true among the dedicated "most of my life revolves around the hobby" types. That's the reality of the hobby we're a part of. It only changes if people stop buying stuff they'll read but never use. And if that happened, there would suddenly be a whole lot fewer games on the market. A significant number of companies in the industry collapsing overnight as their margins buckle completely. And even then, I'm not convinced it would actually make the big dogs suddenly start investing a whole lot of time and effort into making the adventures better, they'd just try to make them more cheaply to make up for the lost numbers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rystefn, post: 9246351, member: 7043460"] If. I strongly suspect that that the overwhelming majority of adventures don't break that way. Lets be clear here: I'm sure there are a fair handful of people on these forums that have some adventure or another more than once for completely difference groups. But the percentage of books sold that get used that way can be safely rounded to zero. The number of adventure books that used to run an adventure to completion even once is almost certainly a pretty small fraction of the ones that actually see a table, which is absolutely a small fraction of the ones sold. And I explicitly picked a popular and enduring one to even estimate the number as high as I did. Yes, we deserve better. But we're not going to get it. If we were, it would have already happened decades ago. The bulk of the books are sold to people who are perfectly happy to read them and never play. This is true for adventures, for PHBs, even for entire game systems. It's true among the super casuals, and it's even more true among the dedicated "most of my life revolves around the hobby" types. That's the reality of the hobby we're a part of. It only changes if people stop buying stuff they'll read but never use. And if that happened, there would suddenly be a whole lot fewer games on the market. A significant number of companies in the industry collapsing overnight as their margins buckle completely. And even then, I'm not convinced it would actually make the big dogs suddenly start investing a whole lot of time and effort into making the adventures better, they'd just try to make them more cheaply to make up for the lost numbers. [/QUOTE]
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