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An interesting campaign source might be Sean K. Reynolds' 'Against the Giants'. It gives one area some detail and some hooks, but you aren't burdened too much with history. And I freakin' loved it.

I don't recall seeing a thread that mathematically deals with the breakdown. Intuitively, though, saves mechanically become a problem with the standard progression. First, "good" saves progress at a faster rate than "bad" saves. The absolute difference between good saves and bad saves...

I'm so excited about the Revenge of the Giants, I might do a little dance. I loved Against the Giants so much! And did it say boxed? Heck yes!

I'm bet this poll suffers from selection bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias What we don't know is if the participants of the poll are indicative of the population of gamers. I suspect not because Enworld is a 3rd party publisher with lots of 3rd party publisher contacts. There...

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I totally haven't seen anything that makes me think FR is post-cataclysmic. There are big changes that occurred over the past 100 years but the world has not fallen in to a Dark Age. I'm also surprised by how much the deity changes bother people but so few people are talking about the...

One of the design goals was to make it more accessible to a new DM and new players. Considering the large amount of material available for FR in past editions and books, I can see it being very intimidating to gain mastery over. So, when people talk about the demotion/destruction of many gods...

(To pick one thing out of your response.) I disagree with the dire portents you throw out as a result of Gleemax. I think it is a bad sign -- someone, somewhere was too optimistic. However, Gleemax wasn't meant to be much of a revenue generator was it? Nothing I have seen indicates it was...

Interesting. So, if WotC can get 1% of the 6 million player population to do DDI at $10 a month then that would be $7.2 million a year. A significant boost for WotC (albeit tiny for Hasbro).

They may also be scrambling to get ready for GenCon since there was some uncertainty over them attending. It wasn't for sure until... April? May? I just recall there was the Lucas Arts lawsuit with GenCon that prevented Hasbro from participating.

I would speculate almost certainly. At tops, Hasbro needs to net 12% profit from WotC to meet expectations (they are about 50/50 debt and equity). There is likely some short term shortfalls from D&D, but with MTG, DDMinis, Star Wars and the other CCGs, it is not too big of hit. Further...

All their annual reports never really reported much on anything other than WotC as a whole. I did a back of the envelope calculation once and I put D&D as contributing about $30 million in sales in 2007 (give or take about $5 million). When I looked at the year 3E came out, I got about $40...

The Bard and the Warlord are different: the Warlord sounds useful. ;) Joking aside, the 3e bard really suffered from the "Master of None" idea. It wasn't even second best at most things: :melee: A second best offensive caster would be a druid :melee: A second best healing caster would be...

Cool. Let's examine a $40 book. If their mark up is 40%, then the $40 book must have cost the retailer $28.57. If the margin for WotC is 13.5%, then the book cost them $25.17 to make, a mark-up of $3.40. (This is using operating margin. The net margin was much less but I think we can ignore...

Hasbro's operating margin is 13.5% and their net profit margin is about 8%. These numbers are not particularly crazy compared to other entertainment companies. Assuming that WotC's numbers are comparable to their parent (and they should be), I think I am comfortable with paying 13% of their...

So, I solicited information. I thought I would contribute what I have found. From Hasbro's annual report: Well... duh. Also, I found this fact, too, from the 10-K. Revenue from the Games and Puzzles categories was $1.3 billion. (This includes WotC.) It also states in a foot note that no...

I'm not sure if I have ever seen any real numbers on D&D for the 3E release. Or, for that matter, on any D&D product ever. I haven't seen anything solid on sales at all. The closest I ever got was that I spoke with one of the Marketing guys at GenCon. I knew he wouldn't give specific...

Very interesting. Of all the things I was expecting to hear, I never considered adventures. I am kinda in the same boat. I don't have the time to develop stuff on my own which is why I've been running the Shackled City Adventure Path from Paizo. For me to run anything in 4E, I would need...

Certainly that is an issue. But also don't forget that though crunch will not translate, the soft stuff will. The FR source books will still be useful (with some exceptions) as will Eberron. For that matter, Ptolus and all it's detail will be useful even if the rules are different. So, if...

Monte, your blog is excellent reading. Thanks for taking the time. I remember reading your discussion on how the OGL was good for the community...eventually. Do you think that will apply to the GSL? As in, eventually it will be good?