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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Disgruntled Hobbit" data-source="post: 8283053" data-attributes="member: 7030041">Knowing Matt Mercer was someone they wanted to work with and knowing Critical Role was a huge phenomena that would double the audience of the game are two different thingsThey could enjoy CR and want to work with Mercer in early 2017 for DRAGON HEIST and still not realize how big an impact CR would have or how it would change the gameHow could they? Nobody expected CR to steadily increase in popularity the way it didEven the people in the show were blown away by it's popularity in 2018 and 2019Marisha Ray and Deborah Anne Woll almost certainly pitched adventures for CANDLEKEEP MYSTERIES that didn't make the cutBecause then they wouldn't have had a book in Spring 2019?While they probably wanted to change gears for 2019 by the time they realized D&D was having such a renaissance it was too late to do a new book. There's a point when they are committed and don't have time to start development on a whole new bookGHOSTS OF SALTMARSH will likely be the last reprint we see. Future anthologies will likely be more like CANDLEKEEP MYSTERIES as a way of testing new freelancers and increasing diversity in DnD. The nostalgia adventures will be handled by Goodman Games instead</blockquote>