Future of Scarred Lands and other 3rd party settings

[danant]

Nonsense. There are still more products coming out for FR than Eberron.

Oh, really?
I've just checked WotC's Product Library...
To 4/2005 there's a lot of products for FR - yeah, sure. But only ONE game accessory - Ancient Empires.
As for Eberron - there are THREE accessories/adventures (Sharn, Grasp of Emerald Claw and Races of Eberron).

So whose opinion is a nonsesne?

Regards,
d.

 

[Nightfall]

Maybe she's saying currently. I mean there's all that backlog of 2nd edition stuff...

But you are right, Eberron is generating a LOT more stuff than FR in 2005.

 

[Eremite]

(snip) To 4/2005 there's a lot of products for FR - yeah, sure. But only ONE game accessory - Ancient Empires. (snip)

There is also going to be a Waterdeep product next year which apparently ties into a new novel or novel series about Waterdeep (I was looking forward to the product until I realised it was going to be linked to a novel).

 

[Erik Mona]

Plenty of Forgotten Realms (and Eberron) adventures coming up in the next year's worth of Dungeon. . .

--Erik

 

[Rasyr]

There is also going to be a Waterdeep product next year which apparently ties into a new novel or novel series about Waterdeep (I was looking forward to the product until I realised it was going to be linked to a novel).

Wouldn't that mean that the module could not be discussed on the WotC forums, since discussions of things tied to novels is not allowed?

 

[I'm A Banana]

Well, WotC knows that a lot of it's FR audience is also it's novel-reading audience. Gamers tend to be compulsive completists.

Sorry to hear about the Scarred Lands, but four years ain't a bad lifetime for a setting. How long did Matzica last? That said, I think FFG is on the right path: pump out the setting, hype it a lot, and if people like it, consider supplements. I have a feeling WotC is going to get a bit burned on their Eberron supplements...I don't see Sharn selling too spectacularly. People like one-offs. People like to pick and choose. And I'm one of the few people who play a near-absurd number of campaigns, rather than draw out one campaign for many years, so I am the one-shot-setting audience.