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<blockquote data-quote="SBMC" data-source="post: 2730880" data-attributes="member: 30040"><p>Not everyone wants new stuff – reason – I want to do it myself! What I need is a foundation to start with (Forgotten Realms for example) where I pick and choose what I want out of the setting then do the rest on my lonesome; and if new settings popped out from everywhere then my ideas would probably be a “copy” of some published material and not mine anymore…</p><p></p><p>You see Hasbro did their research here (a friend of mine took part in a huge marketing operation with them) – look at the products – each supplement has all kinds of stuff – so that folks can pick and choose what they want and the baseline stuff is there so you don’t have to do the actual “work” to start things from scratch.</p><p></p><p>Market research showed that gamers like – by a wide margin – to create their own settings but at the same time realized that the work of creating that foundation was vast. Thus most of them do and did use an existing one as the base/foundation for their own world; and that foundation is modified as the individual chooses.</p><p></p><p>That is one primary reason that WoTC does not have more settings – research said people did not want them – you can’t really tell me you can’t run a solid campaign with what WoTC has right now? We use things form FR and Ebberon – names of nations, cities, monsters, political ideas and exclude others – that my friend is what most gamers do and exactly what the research showed.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This points out what I had said earlier – we all know that we need the DMG, PHB and MM (at least) to run a DnD campaign – all by WoTC – and what books go best with WoTC books? If you have “X” dollars to spend; how would you go? With the tried and proven or the little untested guy?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SBMC, post: 2730880, member: 30040"] Not everyone wants new stuff – reason – I want to do it myself! What I need is a foundation to start with (Forgotten Realms for example) where I pick and choose what I want out of the setting then do the rest on my lonesome; and if new settings popped out from everywhere then my ideas would probably be a “copy” of some published material and not mine anymore… You see Hasbro did their research here (a friend of mine took part in a huge marketing operation with them) – look at the products – each supplement has all kinds of stuff – so that folks can pick and choose what they want and the baseline stuff is there so you don’t have to do the actual “work” to start things from scratch. Market research showed that gamers like – by a wide margin – to create their own settings but at the same time realized that the work of creating that foundation was vast. Thus most of them do and did use an existing one as the base/foundation for their own world; and that foundation is modified as the individual chooses. That is one primary reason that WoTC does not have more settings – research said people did not want them – you can’t really tell me you can’t run a solid campaign with what WoTC has right now? We use things form FR and Ebberon – names of nations, cities, monsters, political ideas and exclude others – that my friend is what most gamers do and exactly what the research showed. This points out what I had said earlier – we all know that we need the DMG, PHB and MM (at least) to run a DnD campaign – all by WoTC – and what books go best with WoTC books? If you have “X” dollars to spend; how would you go? With the tried and proven or the little untested guy? [/QUOTE]
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