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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5982634" data-attributes="member: 22424">I would certainly like WotC to do more by way of "DM support" and "toolkit" products. But...Unfortunately, while you will give them that, not a lot of players will. Adventures have always been low-margin products, and every D&D product needs to justify its existence against the very significant demands of Hasbro. We'll never see more than a trickle of them from WotC because they just don't raise enough money to justify the expense of creating them.Problem is that splatbooks sell. Okay, they can't put one out every couple of weeks, but then they haven't attempted that in some years (indeed, not since WotC bought TSR). But the reason they produce splatbooks early in the edition is because players buy them.(And it's worth noting that even splatbooks are marginal products - there's an anecdote from just after Hasbro bought WotC where the team were celebrating the relatively huge pre-orders for the "Psionics Handbook", or perhaps the "Expanded Psionics Handbook", I forget which. Anyway, the Hasbro rep present, having heard the numbers, proceeded to ask why they were producing that book at all. And that's one of the biggest sellers in the entire supplement line!)I think you're right about this. The best thing for D&D as an RPG would be to be spun out to a smaller company. I don't ever expect that to happen, though - the other parts of the D&D license are too valuable for Hasbro to give up, barring an eccentric billionaire gamer willing to pay well over the odds.Paizo have said that adventures (and especially Adventure Paths) remain the core of their business. And 2-3 hardbacks per year (versus 12 AP volumes) is hardly focussing on splatbooks!(But, despite that, I do have some sympathy for your position. I'm finding that as they go the APs are becoming less and less relevant to me, because they keep referencing materials I not only don't possess, but don't really want to introduce to the game even though they're available for free on the PSRD.)</blockquote>

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