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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6019371" data-attributes="member: 1465">I am quite skeptic on this idea. What makes you think they would sell better? Maybe they would, e.g. to someone who doesn't yet know about D&D settings and would pick up a book with multiple ideas. But I would certainly stay away from such books unless I'm interested in all its settings or unless I absolutely wanted to run one of them, but in that case I'd be pissed off that I had to buy a book only for 1/3 of its content. E.g. in your examples, I'd be interested in FR (although I already have 3e books), but I dislike Greyhawk and I hate Eberron; I am moderately interested in Birthright, but I dislike Dragonlance and ignore Mystara; I would love Al-Qadim but dislike Karatur and Maztica; I like Planescape but I'm neutral to Ravenloft and utterly cannot stand Spelljammer; and I'm neutral/uninterested in the last 3. The net result is that I would buy none of these 5.Also I think that 1/3 of a book is not enough to run a setting. I have run Forgotten Realms and Rokugan in 3ed and bought a bunch of books for each, but at the beginning I was quite fine with just one book (well, 1 and a half for Rokugan since it's also based on OA). 1/3 of a book is really only a small introduction to the setting... not enough for a campaign. So for the purpose of an introduction I think it would be much better that WotC would (a) put that introduction (even smaller that 1/3 of a book, could be just 30-40 pages) into a beginner's box set / basic game product for a setting that WotC really wants to push as default such as FR, or (b) provide a free introduction material for download from their website for other settings. Then publish the usual ~200-300 pages corebook for each setting but this time edition-free: with this size IMHO the setting corebook is large enough to be usable for a whole campaign and be actually more comprehensive than before. For example IMHO a typical problem with D&D settings corebooks is that there is never space for monsters, so you always need to buy at least 2 books to properly get the "feel" of the setting, the corebook and the monsters book (all other supplements being generally less important). But if the corebooks are edition-free, all the space saved up - probably at least 1/3 - can be used for a decent selection of setting-specific monsters.Just my 2cp. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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