NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 5181978" data-attributes="member: 7006">I would be more inclined to think that what WotC wants in their adventures is basics and simplicity.  They want to have the modules on the shelves of Borders to be so easy to use and not confusing or in-depth that a kid who is given a PH, DMG, and a module for his birthday can sit down and figure out how to play the game without his head exploding.  Because that way, he might continue to play the game and then buy more products.Let us not forget the fact that practically every one of us on these forums boards who decry the modules produced by WotC are in fact moderate to experienced D&D or RPGers.  So obviously, the more basic or bland an adventure, the less useful, interesting, or enticing it will be to us here.  Why any of us are surprised by this, is beyond me.The one thing I think all us ENWorlders forget is that WotC is a Hollywood studio, and all other game companies are small independent moviemakers.  WotC will crank out huge, big-budget opuses because they have larger bottom lines to hope they hit on, so they want/need to appeal to as wide of an audience as possible.  Other companies can make the small, personal films that are considered more 'artistic' by the critics, but aren't going to be money-makers.  And we 'savvy filmgoers' might wish that Hollywood would stop putting out 'crap' like Saw VII or Transformers 14 and instead spend more money on stuff like Hurt Locker... but Hurt Locker isn't paying the bills.  What makes the 100 million in profits?  The Hollywood blockbuster.  We might not like it... but that's the way things are right now.  Wishing things were different just isn't useful.</blockquote>

Verification