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Message: <blockquote data-quote="johnsemlak" data-source="post: 1288050" data-attributes="member: 7233">As mentioned above, Kenzer owns a licence to do Mystara for Hackmaster.  They are planning to release a setting book (Mystarihack or something?) next year, though the project has had some problems.  Still, I've resigned myself to the fact this is the best treatment Mystara is gonna get for a while  It's obviously Paizo's prerogitive to not do Mystara stuff in the magazines if the setting is not popular, but I'll offer my individual opinion that I would buy any issue containing Mystara stuff sight unseen.  I agree completely several of the later Mystara supplements, particularly the Hollow World line, were real bombers (sales-wise).  I think the Known World might have a slightly larger resonation with D&Ders than you're giving it credit for though.  Surely, a large amount of gamers entered D&D via the red/blue boxed sets and saw the Known world in some from there.  Regarding the GAzatteer line, I have no idea how popular it was, but I feel strongly it was one of the best overall product lines TSR ever did (though like anything, the quality got dodgy towards the end).  I absolutely pored through the first one, and eagerly awaited the next ones, and bought nearly every one sight-unseen, and devored them with great excitement.  They contained so many new options for D&D at the time, and IMHO, really revitalized the Basic/Expert D&D line as a playable alternative to AD&D.  Whether it actually worked out that way in terms of sales, I don't know.  Mystara died shortly after so probably not.BTW, I am in no way unappretiative of the Mystara lore contained in Dragon #315.</blockquote>

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