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<blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4909552" data-attributes="member: 11821">It will be many, many fewer words - and that's by design, not by accident.&nbsp; I don't think it's a useful experiment when the developers, you, and I all know the result ahead of time. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; DDI articles are not intended to provide equal support to what you'd get in a series of 5-6 hardcovers over the course of 4 years.128 pages is nearly a full hardcover!&nbsp; (The Power books hover around 160.)&nbsp; 32 or 64 pages, maybe, but 128 is pretty big!I think that's pretty optimistic.&nbsp; I'd think it's closer to 20%-30%, and would drop as it got more specific.It's all a numbers game for WotC right now.&nbsp; Core supplements simply sell more books that setting-specific supplements.&nbsp; If you sell 20% as many setting-specific supplements as you do core supplements, but it takes 50% as much development time and money, it's a losing proposition in comparison.&nbsp; The math is pretty solid, based on the numbers WotC has shared on the topic.&nbsp; Simply put, core supplements are a wiser allocation of development time.With that said, it would be awesome if someone could work out a licensing deal with WotC to provide more detailed supplements.&nbsp; Shipping this sort of thing out to a smaller press could make it work.&nbsp; It won't happen, unfortunately, but it would be nice.-O</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Obryn, post: 4909552, member: 11821"] It will be many, many fewer words - and that's by design, not by accident. I don't think it's a useful experiment when the developers, you, and I all know the result ahead of time. :) DDI articles are [I]not [/I]intended to provide equal support to what you'd get in a series of 5-6 hardcovers over the course of 4 years. 128 pages is nearly a full hardcover! (The Power books hover around 160.) 32 or 64 pages, maybe, but 128 is pretty big! I think that's pretty optimistic. I'd think it's closer to 20%-30%, and would drop as it got more specific. It's all a numbers game for WotC right now. Core supplements simply sell more books that setting-specific supplements. If you sell 20% as many setting-specific supplements as you do core supplements, but it takes 50% as much development time and money, it's a losing proposition in comparison. The math is pretty solid, based on the numbers WotC has shared on the topic. Simply put, core supplements are a wiser allocation of development time. With that said, it would be awesome if someone could work out a licensing deal with WotC to provide more detailed supplements. Shipping this sort of thing out to a smaller press could make it work. It won't happen, unfortunately, but it would be nice. -O [/QUOTE]

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