D&D 5E Mike Mearls interview - states that they may be getting off of the 2 AP/year train.

[Corpsetaker]

Not sure who it was that mentioned the Paizo forums but if you frequent those forums like I do then you will know that the Paizo forums don't come close to making up the majority of Pathfinder consumers because if they were then Paizo would have changed their strategy long ago and Pathfinder 2.0 would be celebrating it's 5th year anniversary.

 

[eayres33]

Not sure who it was that mentioned the Paizo forums but if you frequent those forums like I do then you will know that the Paizo forums don't come close to making up the majority of Pathfinder consumers because if they were then Paizo would have changed their strategy long ago and Pathfinder 2.0 would be celebrating it's 5th year anniversary.

I'm confused, Paizo forums don't come close to making up the majority of Pathfinder consumers, (I agree with you there) but then I get lost. So if you aren't using the forums to judge the overall pulse of the Pathfinder community what are you using?

I agree forums give you a lot of noise, as only dedicated and hard core players post on them, (I DM or play with around 9 different people and I'm the only one on the forums) but what other source is publicly available?

 

[darjr]

Will you please go and click on your own "ignore" button?

You could put your self on ignore for all of us. That'd save me the effort.

 

[bmfrosty]

It's fine to come into a conversation when you actually know what's going on.

I do know what's going on. I've been following the thread since I started it. Frankly, you make yourself impossible to ignore because you come into every industry thread and throw a tantrum demanding that your opinions are facts, you horrible troll. You make this forum worse for everyone else. You shouldn't be surprised when people tell you to go away.

 

[Morrus]

Nope I know exactly what Mistwell was saying and what I said was spot on. Don't butt in on conversations you have no clue about.

Will you please go and click on your own "ignore" button?

Unacceptable behaviour. Again. I'm getting tired of this, Corpsetaker. You're a repeat offender. Take a week off this time.

 

[Morrus]

I do know what's going on. I've been following the thread since I started it. Frankly, you make yourself impossible to ignore because you come into every industry thread and throw a tantrum demanding that your opinions are facts, you horrible troll. You make this forum worse for everyone else. You shouldn't be surprised when people tell you to go away.

This is no better. Please use the Report Post button rather than responding in kind.

 

[Morrus]

This has no relation to the question Mistwell asked. You should try and actually read people's posts instead of reading one or two lines and then saying what you want to say.

Is the function you'll be activating "Cancel Account"? I think that would be rather pleasant.

"Close Account"..?

Huh. Two people already beat me to the "cancel account" joke. Wonder what that could mean?

This, also, is not appropriate. As above, please report posts rather than responding in kind.

 

[Jester David]

I think a Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting is a tricky book to get out.

First is the audience. You're immediately targeting only a fraction of the audience.
Most people play homebrew. 55% apparently.
From this: http://slyflourish.com/2016_dm_survey_results.html

Currently, 38% use the Realms, but that could be skewed by the official adventures, and not a desire to play in the Realms, after all:

"The popularity of settings in the survey fell into three distinct clusters. Not surprisingly, our most popular settings from prior editions landed at the top of the rankings, with Eberron, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Planescape, and the Forgotten Realms all proving equally popular. Greyhawk, Dragonlance, and Spelljammer all shared a similar level of second-tier popularity, followed by a fairly steep drop-off to the rest of the settings. "​

From this survey: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/july-survey

And the catch is, fans of the Realms - by definition - already own the books. So you're selling to people who either don't have the books but are curious (a theoretical audience) or people who own the books and might buy updated copies (a potential/uncertain audience).
Especially since the setting is pretty much as it was in 1e/3e. There's very little changed now beyond the names of a few kings and some history.

And, by it's nature, the book will be incomplete compared to the expansive and comprehensive nature of the Forgotten Realms Wiki. WotC could spare themselves some time and money by just updating a few key entries there and directing people to that.

 

[Prakriti]

Remember the 5E design philosophy about not repeating past formulas? For example, instead of Monster Manual II, we got Volo's Guide.

Well, instead of a Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, we got the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. That is the 5E FRCS. They're not going to do another one any time soon.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Especially since the setting is pretty much as it was in 1e/3e. There's very little changed now beyond the names of a few kings and some history.

And how do we know that for certain until a new FRCS is out? Overall a lot of it may seem the same, but as it hasn't been detailed, we can't be sure. Outside the area covered in SCAG, much of the Forgotten Realms is the Schrödinger's cat of settings - we can theorize whether, say, certain towns are alive or dead, but until the metaphorical box is opened, we can't be sure...