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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derulbaskul" data-source="post: 4834410" data-attributes="member: 1581">I'm most interested in adventures which is why I was hoping Necromancer Games would be able to publish very soon. Monster books are also always good, if the art is well-done and an editor with a grasp of the mechanics is employed. I would also love to see an update to FFG's Midnight setting.I don't want any 3PP material for creating PCs simply because my players and I like the character builder too much. In our time-poor environment, being able to create and update PCs with the character builder is something that ultimately convinced us to go with 4E. So unless there is some way to easily import 3PP powers etc... then I'm not interested.I think WotC has dropped the ball on its adventures. If they're not written by Rich Baker then they're rather weak. Scales of War is a travesty as a campaign: none of the lessons learnt and applied by Paizo to adventure paths seem to have been taken into account. Individual adventures can be quite good but it ain't no coherent campaign!I simply stopped buying the hard-copy adventures. I would rather spend my time updating Paizo's adventure paths than salvage pieces from the H1-3, P1-3, E1-3 series (although I quite liked H2).I also believe that WotC should be allowed to deny the GSL to companies that really wrecked the 3PP market during 3.5E. Frex, IMO, Mongoose shouldn't be permitted a licence. How they stayed in business remains a surprise (although their Conan line is pretty good) and they were, IMO, the biggest contributor to the 3PP glut and the perception of the 3PP glut and are highly unlikely to have mended their ways. They're best out of the 4E market simply for the sake of the 4E market.Perhaps a better solution would have been a two-tier or even three-tier GSL. Companies like Green Ronin (not that they seem interested), Paizo (ditto) and Necromancer Games, and possibly FFG for its campaign settings, should have been given a much more lenient "first-tier" GSL because of the respect with which they treated the d20 licence as evidenced by the quality of the products.Companies like Mongoose would get a bottom-tier GSL perhaps only allowing for PDF publishing so that distribution channels don't get clogged up with rubbish. "Hit and miss" companies like Goodman Games (I know that's heresy here because they're so popular) get a second-tier GSL much like the one that exists now.</blockquote>

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