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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erik Mona" data-source="post: 2615682" data-attributes="member: 2174">Honestly, yeah. It was probably too big and too much for the Shackled City book. Sales on the product are decent, but I suspect that the Dragon Compendium will sell better because it is aimed at both DMs and players and because it has a more affordable price point. Before the release of the Shackled City book, I wouldn't have thought price point would be such a sticky issue, but I do now.It's irrelevant. The book was slated as a 256-pager, solicited as a 256-pager, etc. There's actually a business to this, and the profit margins on a slimmer book are often higher. You may have noticed that Wizards has standardized its hardcover size and price, and there's a reason for it. As I said before, there are hundreds of pages of excellent material. Some of that stuff wasn't going to make the cut for the first volume.They'll probably get it eventually, just not in this volume. And if they don't know it exists, what difference does it make if they get it in volume 1 or in volume 5? The answer is that it makes no difference.The "general audience" to which I refer consists not only of people who have been subscribing to the magazine since The Strategic Review, but also to people who aren't interested in purchasing a monthly magazine (for whatever reason) but who might be interested in a compilation of some of the better material from that source. It's also aimed at recent subscribers and readers who complain that the 3.0 and 3.5 stuff published to date is too diffuse, too spread out over their various issues to reference handily.That's because it's true.I thought "pardoning the hyperbole" went part and parcel with reading your posts at all.I've already explained why we didn't put the Nine Hells articles in the first volume. If that explanation ain't good enough for you, there's really not a lot I can do to change your mind.I am confident in the quality of the material that will appear in the first volume just as I am confident that enough high-quality material exists that we can fill several more. However, our current agreement with WotC includes only this first book, and future volumes are predicated upon its sales success. You lecturing someone about sophistry is probably the most amusing thing I've read all week. Thanks for that, old chum.And rain, to date, is still wet.--Erik</blockquote>

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