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Minecraft, Mario, and the Sonic movies have proven decent.

I doubt they would bother for less, nor would I expect them to try. I do somewhat hope they find "Beyond only" a failed experiment, but thst effectively also means the death knell of small D&D products, which I am also fine with.

I don't see why everyone has to be equally common in a Setting.

Costs are very ever linear, for anything. $15 is basically half of what TSR charged for 32 page supplements in print, adjusted for inflation (~$28-32), and the ratio of other Beyond products suggest of they did print these the cost would be $25. And remember, the price for Beyond is based on the...

Well, yeah, this shows that small products are just not cost effective.

It is a 32 page gazateer. We had assumed as a community at some point that it would be more substantial, but alas...no.

Kind of assumed the party was over on those films for a while by now, pwrsonaly, but they had some great qualities.

They are actually extremely active on social media. Whi h, to bring it full circle...what are you seeing out there, @darjr ? I know you didn't start this without some insights.

I'm going to comically assume thst nobody has corrected you on this instead of reading down, but...actually this is a hardcover book. There have never been any paperback 5E books, aside form box set inserts, and no reason to expect any in the future. However, more to your point, we have the...

I am sure the mathematical business case is that Imstagram posts and Beyond articles were just as effective by themselves as with Todd's meaty preview videos. Still makes me sad.

And people wonder why shorter books don't happen anymore. Paizo has started selling 256 page adventure books for $79.99 now, because small paperbacks are no longer economicly feasible for them. Inflationary pressures are getting brutal.

Yeah, thst was a mistake with clearly little in the way of backup.

A bit thin at $15: if this was part of a $60 hardcover that provided equivalent coverage for 8 or 9 Msgic Settings?

I feel like

As of February 2019, Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica was the fastest selling product in the entire 45 year history of Dungeons & Dragons. Tashasurpassed it, and eventually the 2024 Core books...bjt the Magic Settigns have been very well received by Magic fans and grown D&D.

I think you are partially right, yet people use it that way: and 5E bends rather than breaks.

Not at all, it is the themes and story that make ot work. That is why there is no tension running it on 4E or 5E, or in GURPS or Savage Worlds if desired. The "Everything in 3E is Here" wasn't what made it work. Not in the slightest, that is dead earnest: TSR pumped out settings for D&D, and...

It is a pretty fluid system thwt can adapt to multiple Settigns: it doesn't cause much friction with diverse Settings.

Not averse to new Settings at all: but the basis has to be theme and story, not mechanics. The reason WotC has trouble making something really new ia that TSR or Magic both took shotgun approaches to fantasy themes, so they already own a Setting for most possible themes. Examdria, Ravnica...