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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5053781" data-attributes="member: 7006">I would also not be surprised if the decision for 1 Dark Sun Player/GM book was also tied into the true member numbers of DDI.  The WotC number-crunchers probably had many conversations about the relative numbers between old and new fans of Dark Sun who would actually buy the hardcover books versus the old and new fans who are already DDI members (and thus could get the DS crunch for "free".)With FR and Eberron being the two most popular settings at the time of their releases... I would imagine the potential audience that wanted new 4E campaign material and were not yet DDI members was probably much higher than that same audience for Dark Sun.  Thus you had more potential for higher book sales.  If that isn't the case for Dark Sun... then they needed to figure out and decide if there was in fact enough interesting Dark Sun fluff to warrant printing both a Player's and DM's book and hope against hope that the current DDI members would buy them for it (rather than just use the DDI for their info.)The fact that they chose not to do so and instead produce a single book leads me to believe that they think the DDI has enough members that overlap the Dark Sun audience that they would not be able to convince them to buy both books when so much of the info will be appearing in the Character Builder.  Ask those folks to buy a single book however... maybe you'll get lucky.(And as far as the question of whether the DS Creature Catalog will sell even though all of that info will be appearing in the Adventure Tools for DDI members... I would imagine that comes down to whether monster book sales are strong regardless of where else players might be getting their monster info from.  Conventional wisdom seems to indicate that yes, monster books do sell better than most other books, so even one Dark Sun themed has a better chance to sell to everybody, DDI and non-DDI member alike, than what would have been a Dark Sun DM book.)</blockquote>

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