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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6925657" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think it's a valid wish, but I think you're too generous (!) when you allow that it's a valid complaint. I don't think it is. WotC is not under a duty to publish more or different stuff, anymore than any of their customers is under a duty to buy more or different stuff.OK - so you go somewhere else. I mean, one of my favourite take away food places sells souvlakis. And the only vegetarian option is falafel. When I want something other than falafel, I don't scream my rage at the heavens. I go to a different shop.But what do you think they're doing - deliberately refusing to write these supplements just to spite you?If they've deemed that writing those isn't an appropriate way of spending their organisation's finite resources, well, that's their prerogative. They want to spend all their resources making stuff that will sell better.This seems like complaining that some large movie studio won't make the quirky black comedy, or character drama, or whatever that I want to see. No, they won't - but that's why I go to movies other than those produced by large studios.It has nothing to do with rationalisation - it's about the commercial realities of certain publishers/producers, and about we, as purchasers, being willing to buy material from other sources if what the large firm is offering doesn't suit us. Complaining about their publication/production strategy - which is almost certainly better-informed than your complaints - just doesn't seem very worthwhile.If what you want to do is run a D&D game, then I don't see why "fanfic" isn't enough.But in any event, there is a lot of stuff already published, some of which I'm guessing you own, some of which is available at DTRPG. And conversion to 5e is extremely straightforward.And the absence of new "metaplot" I think is a good thing for the strength of the RPG hobby.And so, if you're not happy with the "megacorp" RPGs, buy from those other companies! There's a heap of stuff out there - OSR, "indie" games like Burning Wheel, etc.It's not like it's hard to find good RPG material at the moment.As far as "flopping" goes - if/when sales drop, I don't think WotC is going to be thinking "If only we'd published that 32-page module that posters on ENworld were calling for, our balance sheet would be completely different now!" If having sold 100s of thousands of copies of the PHB doesn't establish a solid market for future sales, I don't think publishing an extra short module or two would have made any difference.</blockquote>

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