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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1455185" data-attributes="member: 6398">As a product line, yes, it would be a huge advantage.  As an article in a single issue of a monthly magazine, though, it naturally lacks the market potential; One month of decent sales, a good number of which includes subscriptions to folks that don't care about Dark Sun either way, a handful of trickle-down sales from the past issues rack after that, and then obscurity.  Consider it this way: Anyone interested in Spider Moon that didn't get the Polyhedron issue that featured it isn't likely going to find it except by half-a-chance in the bargain bin or by means of illegal scanning. Compare this to the continued growth, continued support, and desire for community input that already is and will continue to be available at Athas.org.  At most, the article can only boost Athas; it will have people that don't know about Dark Sun asking about it, which will inevitably lead them to Athas.org, at which time they have a choice: Stick with a one article conversion that barely touches on the full extent of the setting, or adopt the rules used by the Athas folks.  Sure, there will be a few that use the article as a basis of their own development (which may or may not include obtaining the ESDs and doing a full setting conversion), but I'd say that the other option, that of taking what's readily and easily available and virtually guaranteed to have more added to it, will remain the popular choice. Actually, I don't know if the Athas folks are already doing this, but they probably should consider distributing their "finalized" material through RPGNow, which seems to have no problem with distributing free material; If up to me, I'd release through them immediately after the Dragon issue is released.  Granted, it's not up to me, but it's a definate means of grabbing on to the spin-effect of the article and using that momentum to full advantage for themselves.</blockquote>

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