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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6539935" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>Warning: I'm going to use caps for emphasis.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here's the thing, though. The 3e book came out in 2001. Fourteen years ago. That means, with the exception of myself, EVERYONE in my gaming group was 12 or younger! And they're GRADUATE STUDENTS now!! None of them have even seen the FR grey box. One might have seen the 3e FRCS. I don't think any of them played 4e much. There's at least two generations of gamers that don't have what I would consider a proper campaign setting. That's a market.</p><p></p><p>We're butthurt about timeline changes n' stuff, but we're at least a generation out of date. Probably two. I hate it when people say this to me, but...we're not the market.</p><p></p><p>Can WotC even write something like this? Hell yeah. Some material can be reused from earlier works, and...this is what they do. Can two people write five chapters each? I would hope so. Three people could each write three chapters, and a fourth write one. It's doable. (I'm just picking 10 chapters for kicks and giggles, btw.)</p><p></p><p>Is there a market for it? I dunno. There was a market for that Forgotten Realms hardbound last year that was, insofar as I could tell, a collection of essays by Ed Greenwood. I have a hard time believe that would sell more than a full-on CS. The people who are going to be aggrieved and vocal about it are either going to buy it to complain, or buy it because they're completists, or not buy it. That's two win scenarios and one neutral (you're not really losing a sale there). Between the completists, the new generation, and the people who are just curious/interested, I don't think the gripe-squad is nearly as large as the internet likes to pretend.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6539935, member: 70"] Warning: I'm going to use caps for emphasis. Here's the thing, though. The 3e book came out in 2001. Fourteen years ago. That means, with the exception of myself, EVERYONE in my gaming group was 12 or younger! And they're GRADUATE STUDENTS now!! None of them have even seen the FR grey box. One might have seen the 3e FRCS. I don't think any of them played 4e much. There's at least two generations of gamers that don't have what I would consider a proper campaign setting. That's a market. We're butthurt about timeline changes n' stuff, but we're at least a generation out of date. Probably two. I hate it when people say this to me, but...we're not the market. Can WotC even write something like this? Hell yeah. Some material can be reused from earlier works, and...this is what they do. Can two people write five chapters each? I would hope so. Three people could each write three chapters, and a fourth write one. It's doable. (I'm just picking 10 chapters for kicks and giggles, btw.) Is there a market for it? I dunno. There was a market for that Forgotten Realms hardbound last year that was, insofar as I could tell, a collection of essays by Ed Greenwood. I have a hard time believe that would sell more than a full-on CS. The people who are going to be aggrieved and vocal about it are either going to buy it to complain, or buy it because they're completists, or not buy it. That's two win scenarios and one neutral (you're not really losing a sale there). Between the completists, the new generation, and the people who are just curious/interested, I don't think the gripe-squad is nearly as large as the internet likes to pretend. [/QUOTE]
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