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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 1462381" data-attributes="member: 8835">the mongoose brings up a good point:  business plan (I do have a business degree)It's also a good idea to have some sort of market research (or fake data) supporting your plan to release a campaign world product.Its a matter of studying what works.  If campaign worlds don't sell well, then your chances of success in that format is lower than if you picked a different product category). From what I can tell, the product categories seem to be:monster collections (monsters that infect with eggs, then burst thru chest)spell collections (Bigby's clenched arse, Bigby's groping fingers...)item collections (my new vapor longsword +3 is misty!)campaign worlds (in the beginning...)adventure/modules (rescue princess, get gold, the end)class expansion books (fighters need more feats)race expansion books (now elves are even kewler)new race or class expansion books (let's invent sponge-people)new rules on a new topic (D&D3.x has no ship rules, I'll write them)rewriting rules on a topic books (ie. my sailing ship rules are better than his)Service Packs (Earthy Arcana book will replace all the core rules with mine)Short PDFs on a topic (PhillipJReed thinks these sell well, his stuff sells)Having done no market research myself (the Scott Adams approach), I can tell you that Short PDFs, new rules on a new topic, monster and spell collections seem to go over well.  I say this because people keep making them, so they must do well.  I get the feeling that campaign worlds do not (since Wotc has seperated itself a bit from the process).  Or more to say, there's money in the initial release, but supporting it tends to drag things down.  Which is why Wotc changed it's campaign world practices a bit.  I would expect them to kill Eberon or FR after a certain amount of time.  The worlds they license are different, in that they do initial work (ie. Wheel of Time) but then shut it down.A good poll would be to ask how many GMs use homebrew versus boxed campaign worlds.  You could subdivide boxed campaigns into Wotc ones, or third party ones, or ones adapted directly from non-d20 sources.  Someone out there is running a D20 modern game in the StarGate setting without the AEG books.  I ran an FR campaign with nothing more than the map from an FR novel.  Those GMs are effectively running a homebrew with inspiration from another source (aka the Man isn't getting a cut).Just some thoughts,Janx</blockquote>

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