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WotC: Stop sitting on Rich Burlew's setting (you own the rights!) - publish it for 5E too!
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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 7461249" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>I <em>think</em> they actually retained ownership of all of the top-three settings. So there's one more as well.</p><p></p><p>However, it doesn't follow that they have these settings just sitting ready to be used. The final deliverable from the Setting Search was a 100-page setting bible. This then underwent a <em>lot</em> of development before resulting in the 300-ish page Eberron Campaign Setting book (not to mention the line of supplements). The other two settings, if they still exist, would still be in that raw form.</p><p></p><p>(I also <em>think</em> I saw somewhere that at least some of the ideas from RB's setting did eventually make their way into Eberron. Certainly, WotC may well have picked over those two settings for ideas to use in future books. So there may well not be anything left to publish - just the picked over bones.)</p><p></p><p>And all that said, there's also a fairly strong incentive for WotC <em>not</em> to publish. The reality is that many D&D players don't use <em>any</em> published settings, and very very few make use of more than one. That means that each additional setting they publish is competing for a slice of an already-small pool of potential customers. Competing against yourselves in that manner doesn't make good business sense.</p><p></p><p>So I'd be surprised if we ever saw anything of the runner-up settings... or indeed if we ever saw another new setting from WotC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 7461249, member: 22424"] I [i]think[/i] they actually retained ownership of all of the top-three settings. So there's one more as well. However, it doesn't follow that they have these settings just sitting ready to be used. The final deliverable from the Setting Search was a 100-page setting bible. This then underwent a [i]lot[/i] of development before resulting in the 300-ish page Eberron Campaign Setting book (not to mention the line of supplements). The other two settings, if they still exist, would still be in that raw form. (I also [i]think[/i] I saw somewhere that at least some of the ideas from RB's setting did eventually make their way into Eberron. Certainly, WotC may well have picked over those two settings for ideas to use in future books. So there may well not be anything left to publish - just the picked over bones.) And all that said, there's also a fairly strong incentive for WotC [i]not[/i] to publish. The reality is that many D&D players don't use [i]any[/i] published settings, and very very few make use of more than one. That means that each additional setting they publish is competing for a slice of an already-small pool of potential customers. Competing against yourselves in that manner doesn't make good business sense. So I'd be surprised if we ever saw anything of the runner-up settings... or indeed if we ever saw another new setting from WotC. [/QUOTE]
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