RedShirtNo5.1
Explorer
Hold on, you guys are being too harsh on Corpsetaker. We need to remember, as Ben Franklin once said, "even a broken record is right once per day."
Maybe. But a lot of people join home games run by their friends. Being introduced to the game by friends in the know is probably a lot more common than just wandering into a store.No telling without doing the research.
But, how many brand-new players are playing AL vs playing in someone's home campaign? Probably a whole lot of 'em. You're just more likely to find out about and drop in on Encounters than be invited into an existing gaming cabal.
It adds a book and options. It doesn't change the races or options. Half-orcs aren't suddenly unavailable.AL already does change what's available over time.
IF the setting is as close to traditional fantasy as Greyhawk. If it's Ravenloft or Eberron it's suddenly more complicated, and if it's Dark Sun or Al Qadim it's even more tricky.For a new player learning FR is no different from learning Greyhawk or whatever.
A good setting book takes a really long time to write. Even farming it out is tricky, since they still need to find someone who can do a 256-page AP and a 300+ page hardcover in the same six-month window.If it's one SCAG-like setting book a year, with an adventure path in the same setting that'd hardly seem out of line. You've got the whole year that one is playing out to do the next. Besides, they farm this stuff out.
No reason it has to stay the same place, no. But also no reason it has to change worlds.I couldn't make a guess as to either figure (beyond what Dancey said about how big they wanted to grow the business at one point). But, the point is that it's not the 90s anymore, and a compelling setting isn't the killer app that moves a TTRPG system anymore.
WotC seems to think it's now the Adventure Path, the 'Story.' No reason that story has to always be set in the same place.
Hold on, you guys are being too harsh on Corpsetaker. We need to remember, as Ben Franklin once said, "even a broken record is right once per day."
I'm not entirely sure settings really ever sold that well. They sold well enough for TSR...