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I'm sure they make ad revenue. But that doesn't resolve the masses of IP material out there that aren't old, not new D&D material. Not likely most companies that make game supplements are going to allow that to happen.

Honestly I think they need a 10 to 15 dollar a month sub that gives people access to everything and quit selling books. I don't see any other solid predictable revenue options for them.

I think 5e has probably hit market saturation.

It just depends on if they can tweak it right to make people want to keep the subs long enough so that it's more profitable than the books. I think a good start there is to let players keep the old stuff they purchase even when they do refreshes or edition changes.

isnt' that the opposite of a financial reason to do it? a Wiki for old stuff doesn't seem very profitable.

I'd say 40 to 50% of products I've seen over the years were in GM libraries. some players buy a lot too but I think at least 1/2 of players buy nothing or just a book or two.

that possibility died the day Hasbro bought them.

done that 3 times already. <sort've>

So after reading all this it's 1. tiny little updates dribbled out every two or three years. 2. lot's of updates or what I call the 3rd edition model. 3. reinvent the wheel every 5 to 10 years. We still haven't come up with anything that hasn't already been tried.

that's funny. Basic Marketing is make people wade through tons of stuff so you'll buy the things that are higher profit. All financial benefits are for white whales wading through mounds of stuff they'll buy. This will never get fixed for that reason. It's the same reason your grocery...

It's also much harder to find it because it's like the internet an huge disorganized mess. More is not always better.

and feeds the certain things are overpowered arguements, when they really aren't overpowered just powerful and very unlikely to work.

the bigger the company the less likely any innovation will come. Bigger almost always means slow steady incremental change.

so 3rd edition. never ending supply of splat books.

There's been many very long threads about the fall of TSR. It was family drama, friend drama and just years of gamers trying to be gamers while running a business. It wasn't the boxed sets that killed them. It can probably be distilled down to the fact that the company didn't have a solid...

they also set them up for many other reasons, personal, and other. to simply say they only set up companie's to make profits is just silly. but yes they do need to make profits to continue.

I think the one thing that never gets added to that discussion is that most people over the last 30 years have not had thier pay go up as much as inflation. All those covid pay raises make economists think everyone should be happy but if you look at a table that includes inflation and average...

Most of the countries central banks that tried to raise interest rates were trying to sink Zombie Firms and that so far has been a complete failure as a strategy. Some experts have been saying for awhile in America at least that retail needs to lose about 20% of the companies that exist, Fast...

Or those talisman's of pure good become a talisman of a certain god and they they hurt nearly everyone good or bad that shouldn't pick them up. How dare you hold a relic of the sun god?

no but the alignment system is the simple version of doing a full list of acceptable behaviors for Gods which could end up based on historical and real world examples, mapping out most of the characters day, telling them when they have to pray, what words they can and can't use, whether or not...