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Message: <blockquote data-quote="timbannock" data-source="post: 7666488" data-attributes="member: 17913">This position makes sense to me; thank you for explaining!And not to poo-poo that position at all -- it's entirely valid, nay, inescapable for some amount of the existing (and thus realistically largest) part of the audience to feel this way -- but I think FR specifically, and most of the classic D&D campaign settings in general, are pretty much as complete a product line as they can realistically be without drilling down so deep into the niche that it's just completely vanity press, fan-support style material. Maybe I'm wrong -- hopefully I am! -- but with dndclassics.com and other sources of obtaining older edition material, Wizards probably realizes that there's no sustainable way to keep saying "new" things about any given setting, so appeal to the widest audience possible to make thrilling, useful-at-the-game table scenarios.I think Wizards is effectively done catering to the audience that wants every inch of land detailed, every member of every organization statted out, etc. etc. They want a game that gets played, because that brings in a bigger *potential* group of consumers over time, even if it necessarily kills off some of the rabid-fanbase side of their consumers. By "rabid" I mean the collectors and readers of RPG books, as opposed to the people actively playing the game. Sure there's lots of overlap there, but I for one am a fan of the reading and collecting, but am perfectly happy also not being one of those people if they aren't catering to that, so they've targeted me (an edge case) plus anyone seeking published material to plunder (DUNGEON readers, FR gamers, Adventurer League gamers, people-willing-to-do-the-porting-to-whatever-their-campaign-is gamers) which is likely a bigger group. True, they may not be as diehardly consistent a buying group...but with the publishing schedule Wizards seems to be sticking to, that's not really a problem at all.Just my thoughts, not really a position on whether this is good or bad for the future.</blockquote>

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