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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6948593" data-attributes="member: 12731">In discussing &quot;loss leaders&quot; I think it useful to restrict ourselves to printed products (even though Basic certainly cost more than nothing to put together).I can certainly see the first few adventure campaigns making a profit, but if WotC has managed to find a way to actually make money off of things like Storm King's Thunder (instead of merely making sure a prospective PHB customer sees plenty of support material on the shelf), congratulations! It will be interesting indeed to see if they ever take this tack. Smushing together support for several campaign worlds in a single book, that is. Personally I don't think it'll work, but they certainly have to try something.(As I said previously, if they thought they could get away with not printing any world support books, leaving that to perhaps the DMs Guild, I believe they wouldn't and would. Look at SCAG - to me it's obvious how they have concluded a campaign book don't sell enough by itself - even for FR - and so they added player material. Sure SCAG ended up being too light and sparse for me on both DM and PC fronts, but if they're happy with sales, I guess I'll have to get used to this new, much lower, amount of content per dollar)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 6948593, member: 12731"] In discussing "loss leaders" I think it useful to restrict ourselves to printed products (even though Basic certainly cost more than nothing to put together). I can certainly see the first few adventure campaigns making a profit, but if WotC has managed to find a way to actually make money off of things like Storm King's Thunder (instead of merely making sure a prospective PHB customer sees plenty of support material on the shelf), congratulations! It will be interesting indeed to see if they ever take this tack. Smushing together support for several campaign worlds in a single book, that is. Personally I don't think it'll work, but they certainly have to try [I]something[/I]. (As I said previously, if they thought they could get away with not printing any world support books, leaving that to perhaps the DMs Guild, I believe they wouldn't and would. Look at SCAG - to me it's obvious how they have concluded a campaign book don't sell enough by itself - even for FR - and so they added player material. Sure SCAG ended up being too light and sparse for me on both DM and PC fronts, but if they're happy with sales, I guess I'll have to get used to this new, much lower, amount of content per dollar) [/QUOTE]

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