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<blockquote data-quote="Mephista" data-source="post: 7252083" data-attributes="member: 6786252">It sounds like you're saying that moving players away from published settings is a deliberate plan of the D&amp;D people?&nbsp; If I'm wrong, ignore the next part, please.The move away from published settings isn't just resticted to D&amp;D, but rather its endemic of other TT games as well.&nbsp; The simple fact of the matter is that almost every game publisher has admitted that such books don't yield as much profit (if they even break even) as other kinds of books. The demand has simply been going down.&nbsp; The reason, as I said before, is quite possibly tied to the explosion of computers and the internet. Research is far easier now than it ever was. Getting maps are easy.&nbsp; And so on.&nbsp; That part is easy - you sit down with your phone while waiting for an Uber or while in the dentist office, and look up wiki articles. Writing the story parts are harder, however.&nbsp; Story ideas are the demand in many games on top of mechanics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mephista, post: 7252083, member: 6786252"] It sounds like you're saying that moving players away from published settings is a deliberate plan of the D&D people? If I'm wrong, ignore the next part, please. The move away from published settings isn't just resticted to D&D, but rather its endemic of other TT games as well. The simple fact of the matter is that almost every game publisher has admitted that such books don't yield as much profit (if they even break even) as other kinds of books. The demand has simply been going down. The reason, as I said before, is quite possibly tied to the explosion of computers and the internet. Research is far easier now than it ever was. Getting maps are easy. And so on. That part is easy - you sit down with your phone while waiting for an Uber or while in the dentist office, and look up wiki articles. Writing the story parts are harder, however. Story ideas are the demand in many games on top of mechanics. [/QUOTE]

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