I agree it needs something, we just don't agree on what that is. I think the restrictions could be that something, but there a lots of other ways the could go or add on top of the low-magic idea if they decided that is not enough. If the included stronghold, mass combat, and kingdom management as part of low-magic greyhawk setting that would be cool too. i wouldn't use those, but some people would.
Well the novels are back on, so differences can be resolved.
I don't think so. Everything takes time with 5e. They have opened very few settings on the DMsGuild so far. The pattern has always been to release a setting book and then open it on DMsGuild. So, we just need to push for a setting book it seems to me. I honestly believe we will see it in 2024 if not before.
That was not legal interpretation I heard on these forums when the suit was repealed by Wies and Hickman, but I'm not a lawyer.
The two settings being closer means you're less likely to capture new customers. Someone who would buy a Greyhawk book is likely to buy an FR book. Someone who would buy a Ravnica book may or may not be an FR buyer, so if you're already selling FR adding Ravnica is a better bet for getting new customers.
Had to come back for this one. The point I made was not specific to Mearls (but generally 3 I posed about WotC's non-responses, all of which, left to the area of silence, were interpretable); and even though I mentioned him as a contact person, what I assumed at the time to be THE contact person at WotC re such a matter, that reference was not meant to start bashing-of-Mearls rejoinders. Biz is Biz. Sometimes you take the cold shoulders as an easy way out. It's never stopped me: 100 publishing credits, 2 awards and published in 20 languages, if I did nothing else (highly unlikely!) until my eventual retirement, I'd have earned my chops.
Had to come back for this one. The point I made was not specific to Mearls (but generally 3 I posed about WotC's non-responses, all of which, left to the area of silence, were interpretable); and even though I mentioned him as a contact person, what I assumed at the time to be THE contact person at WotC re such a matter, that reference was not meant to start bashing-of-Mearls rejoinders. Biz is Biz. Sometimes you take the cold shoulders as an easy way out. It's never stopped me: 100 publishing credits, 2 awards and published in 20 languages, if I did nothing else (highly unlikely!) until my eventual retirement, I'd have earned my chops.
I do appreciate the nod of respect, OTOH.
Well. Biz is also the ability to not cry over imagined spilled milk. I have NEVER been desperate to sell a deal no matter who I am dealing with. It's all about the product with me. So I am left with: is it the product? Me? if he had said "No thank you." As it stood it was neither. Always find solutions, not problems. I never concern myself with things I cannot control. That is the way forward past all of the self-imagined walls. In summary, everything is a positive. "What does not destroy me strengthens me." -- F. Neitzsche
