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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 7748694" data-attributes="member: 13703"><p>Except those Kara Tur books are still complimentary to the other FR books that WotC have produced. They work together because they are still in the same setting. Plus there aren't so many that it is completely unaffordable for your average player to keep up with, even if they also buy some DM's Guild FR PDFs.</p><p></p><p>Let's say WotC opened up Dragonlance for use in the DM's Guild. Players and DM's would then have a choice to either buy FR books (both WotC and DM's Guild), buying just Dragonlance books from DM's Guild or buying both FR and DM's Guild products.</p><p></p><p>While there are some that would buy both, it would likely cannibalise some of the FR sales, both WotC and DM's Guild. Even if the combined sales of both products did generate more profit for WotC, the potential increase in profit is likely not worth the potential downside risks for WotC. Plus they would then be under pressure from Dark Sun, Eberron, Greyhawk, Planescape, Birthright, Mystara, Spelljammer, etc. fans for their setting to also be released, leading to further fragmentation.</p><p></p><p>Or WotC could just keep the status quo, which they know for a fact is working well and not have to worry about any of those risks. Yes, they will get complaints from people that their favourite setting is not available, but they're going to get that anyway, unless they open up all their settings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 7748694, member: 13703"] Except those Kara Tur books are still complimentary to the other FR books that WotC have produced. They work together because they are still in the same setting. Plus there aren't so many that it is completely unaffordable for your average player to keep up with, even if they also buy some DM's Guild FR PDFs. Let's say WotC opened up Dragonlance for use in the DM's Guild. Players and DM's would then have a choice to either buy FR books (both WotC and DM's Guild), buying just Dragonlance books from DM's Guild or buying both FR and DM's Guild products. While there are some that would buy both, it would likely cannibalise some of the FR sales, both WotC and DM's Guild. Even if the combined sales of both products did generate more profit for WotC, the potential increase in profit is likely not worth the potential downside risks for WotC. Plus they would then be under pressure from Dark Sun, Eberron, Greyhawk, Planescape, Birthright, Mystara, Spelljammer, etc. fans for their setting to also be released, leading to further fragmentation. Or WotC could just keep the status quo, which they know for a fact is working well and not have to worry about any of those risks. Yes, they will get complaints from people that their favourite setting is not available, but they're going to get that anyway, unless they open up all their settings. [/QUOTE]
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