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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 4970143" data-attributes="member: 83805">Looking back at the d20 3PP glut era, adventure modules were popular at first from 2000 to mid-late 2002.  Several d20 3PPs were producing many modules like Alderac, Fantasy Flight, MonkeyGod, Atlas, Troll Lord, Fiery Dragon, Necromancer, etc ...  After 3.5E was released, it was mainly Goodman and Necromancer left who were still regularly producing many adventure modules for 3.5E D&D.  The rest exited the adventure modules business in 2002/2003, and did something else like crunch heavy spatbooks or they shortly exited the 3.5E d20 business altogether.  Other smaller d20 3PPs followed a similar pattern too, of producing a few modules at first and then moving on to crunch heavy splatbooks.This time around for 4E, the 3PP market may possibly remain in the adventure modules market phase for a long time without ever truly being in a crunch heavy splatbooks market phase.If there are going to be some more new settings for 4E, I don't know whether the market will follow any of the d20 3PP era's patterns, such as Scarred Lands, Midnight, Freeport, Kingdoms of Kalamar, etc ...  This time around, I wouldn't be surprised if some 4E 3PP settings end up following the "Castlemourn" model of only a campaign setting guide and maybe a player's guide being published.</blockquote>