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I agree with the points you make. A number of people have felt the paper is too thin, but I'm okay with it and I see the overall value as high. Arguably, these adventures are a far higher value for a DM than the old TSR/WotC approach of publishing a big hardback book or boxed set and a separate...

Some of the Lair Assaults have some pieces that may make a digital version less attractive, or at least require printing out in color and cutting stuff out (mount cards, DM map, certainly poster maps). It will be interesting to see if they end up releasing them on DnD Classics. I've updated the...

I updated the first post for the latest season, Legacy of the Crystal Shard. As with Murder in Baldur's Gate, it began with a launch weekend event (we had a great time with it). The season is again a for-purchase product containing a DM's screen with information useful to running the...

Duplicate post, sorry.

It could be, though Greg Leads' comments certainly state that they plan on supporting both 4E and 3E with Next products long-term. I just doubt the sales of 2E and 3E reprints were very high. Maybe they were. I also recall a visit to a store where they had an incredibly confusing D&D shelf: 3E...

I think the gaming industry has actually been surprisingly good about this. Monte Cook mentioned how when he started at ICE the company was very clear that TSR was not the enemy. They knew it was a big enough industry and that DnD helped by bringing new players, some of whom would decide they...

Maybe that's why we're having trouble seeing eye-to-eye. I'm not trying to argue this as a fan of any particular gaming system, nor as something that should in any way change what you want to do. I most certainly don't want to change what game you play. The OGL isn't great for Wizards of the...

When I'm arguing that the OGL is a problem, I'm saying that in the context of Wizards of the Coast, the upcoming D&D Next edition, and the 3E OGL language. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, I'm a huge fan of an OGL for most other companies. Smaller companies can greatly benefit from the...

I'm sorry too. It's a real shame your bias towards one game prevents you from learning about the industry as a whole. I'll be clear: I'm not a fan of WotC. I'm a HUGE fan of WotC. But, I'm also a HUGE admirer of Paizo. They really rock. I can't be a bigger fan of Mona and Bulmahn - they are...

Okay, sure, shipping makes everything in Europe more expensive. In the US, book re-sellers have tons of that late 3E content for cheap. Your comment about reprints is a good one. It's one I wrestle with often. I have trouble believing the reprints, as beautiful as they are, will sell very well...

I don't know how the volume will compare over time, but Paizo publishes at a healthy clip. We've had Adventure Paths based on desert, ice, sea, pirates, undead, Asian nations... I'm sure I'm forgetting a few tropes, but at some point we've hit most people's preferences. We've had obvious and...

With 4E there has been a wealth of content, both official and unofficial. While the unofficial material has mostly been fan-generated, it has at times been incredibly useful and influential. I've met tons of DMs that transformed their campaigns or adventures based on free material online, all...

I love the ideas. BUT, what you propose all rests on 3E pulling in enough sales to merit the approach. It is highly unlikely that it could have. The diminishing returns were already there on 3E. The Book of Nine Swords was already out. It was clear that the edition was done for WotC. They didn't...

You made some really great points in your response. I really enjoyed reading them and mulling them over, thanks! To the above, I have issues with "inconvenient to their business plan". Every responsible company has business plans. Every company should want profit and most should want to grow...

Every gamer's story and perspective will be different. We will all like different editions to a greater or lesser extent for various reasons. But, I don't at all agree that Wizards was trying to alienate or discard any part of its 3E (or pre-3E) audience. Consider the gamers who hated both 3E...

The early adventures were being written at a time when the RPG community was a lot like a moderately extended small clubhouse. Running adventures for one another was a normal part of things, but selling them was not. Then other companies started to create scenarios... and that's when they turned...

There is no doubt that the lack of a 4E OGL stopped 3rd parties from writing 4E material. That was likely the point. While an OGL is great for a 3rd party that wants to make money off of another's system, that isn't necessarily good for the industry (due to an over-emphasis/glut on a single...

The purpose of the OGL was two-fold. Which was foremost can be argued. One was to ensure that D&D would remain forever, because it could always be remade by anyone. A dying TSR could have locked up the game in the hands of lawyers for decades, so Peter Adkison wanted to prevent that possibility...

D&D has never existed in a space where it lacked competition. We can read accounts going back to the very beginning and everyone has always been taking competition seriously. For example, the very first adventure was created by a third party, as was the first campaign setting. Those are good...

I've made this unpopular assertion in the past, but I really find the benefits of an OGL to be debatable for Wizards. For smaller publishers, I think the benefits are pretty clear. A smaller RPG company has many limits on their ability to grow their game, from a lack of marketing to the...