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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6243237" data-attributes="member: 22424">All true. Remember, though, that it's not enough to "generate profit" - for WotC to publish it a book must generate enough profit. (It's worth noting, though, they a book need not generate that profit directly - if an adventure barely breaks even but instead causes those splatbooks to sell enough additional copies, that's good enough.)Indeed. But those four players represent the potential audience, which is bigger than the one DM that is the potential audience for adventures. And, as I noted, only a subset of DMs buy adventures at all, so that may well be a wash.But, anyway... the common wisdom is that adventures don't sell as well as splatbooks. It's not hard to see an explanation. But that explanation may be wrong, and that common wisdom may likewise be wrong. I don't have access to sales figures, so I really don't know... and I would be surprised if either WotC or Paizo chose to enlighten us with the actual sales figures. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As a DM with sorely limited time available, I'm always glad to see good adventures being published, and try to make a point of supporting companies who do so (hence my Pathfinder AP subscription, despite never having played the game). So, if WotC were to focus more on adventures for 5e, and especially if they manage to turn around their current reputation as to the quality of those adventures, I will be delighted. And I don't particularly care about the format - although my slight preference is for print, I can live with PDF via DDI.One thing, though: I would much rather see a small number of really good adventures than a larger number of bad, or even just indifferent, ones. I already have more crappy adventures than I will ever use, even if all I do for the rest of my days is run published adventures.</blockquote>

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