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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8702674" data-attributes="member: 5948">Was this happening though?I just had a look at wikipedia's list of Forgotten Realms products.  In the 2e era, by my count (the page isn't the clearest...) TSR put out 58 FR sourcebooks/boxed sets and 47 adventures (this is a bit blurry, there's a few edge cases like crossovers with Ravenloft, OA products retconned into the Realms once Kara-Tur was shoved into Faerun, the Maztica line, etc etc).  The vast majority of these were in the 8 years between 1987 and 1995.In the 3rd ed era (the 8 years from 2000 to 2008), WotC released by my count 20 FR sourcebooks and 9 FR adventures.  That's a massive drop in pace of release, even accounting for the fact that a 3rd ed product was on average higher in page count than a 2e product.  And FR was the line that WotC produced significantly the most material for - Eberron was the runner-up but the line was at best 75% of the size of the FR line, and there was no real third place.  Nothing like the early/mid 90s when TSR are pumping out FR and Al-Qadim and Dark Sun and Planescape and Ravenloft all at once, and all at high pace.  I mean, the volume of Ravenloft releases alone - through the mid 90s there were routinely 9 or 10 Ravenloft products alone coming out every year.TSR treated its release schedule like a comic shop's.  An enthusiast, much less a completist, could rock along once a month and expect a handful of new books to have been released that they might want to pick up.  WotC  has increasingly tried to make book releases more of an event, with loads of anticipation and strategic leaks etc which is possible because they're not trying to hype up two Ravenloft adventures, an FR region guide, an Al-Qadim boxed set, and the Complete Nilbog's Handbook all being released in the same month.</blockquote>

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