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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 5052818" data-attributes="member: 10095">After two settings using the original model, they probably decided that the DM's guide wasn't delivering as good a return on the investment as they thought, so they made the core book one that both players and DMs would buy.Also, for the Creature Catalog, that is highly necessary for a setting like Dark Sun, which is up to its eyeballs in new, weird, Athas-specific monsters. Looking at the Eberron and FR guides, there is a really low amount of new monsters, compared to what you would need to reasonably represent Dark Sun's individuality.As for the price... we're in a recession, still, and the price of paper and other printing costs has been rising recently.I agree that the Player/DM division of materials was a good one, but we only see the results on our end, not the results on WotC's end. It may have been a good model in theory, but might not be working out in pratice.Also, if the model they move to is increasing sales, that makes it a more functional model for them, since their objective is to continue to sell supplements so they can continue to develop them. There's nothing sinister about changing a plan after two attempts with the initial plan, if it will net you higher sales or more customers.This is true, but we are going to see other new, player mechanics.I believe part of it is that they aren't going to detail Athas as much as we have detail on Eberron and the Realms, because Athas should be much more of a mystery for DMs to do with as they please.</blockquote>

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