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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6767756" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!In my opinion, and I've said this years ago... WotC need to work on their image of "we're gamers, just like you!". Now, I know that the core folk there are actually gamers, but for me, the whole 3.x through 4e eras have basically felt like "Here's some stuff we think we can make money off of", and less like "Here's some stuff we've been playing with in our own campaigns and we think you'd like".Most of the folks I know (including myself) would be very happy with a simple PDF of 'info' for other settings. We don't need (or even want) full colour extravaganza's with fancy backgrounds that make the text almost impossible to read. Give me a 32-page, b/w, booklet (ala the original World of Greyhawk Folio edition, circa 1981(?)). Some simple b/w art here and there (basically, "doodles and sketches" that an artist can whip out in 20 minutes), a paragraph or two on the overall area/country, and maybe a list of deity names and portfolios at the back.If they put out, say, a 64-page b/w PDF with no-nonsense, simple, quick, sparsely festooned document for Birthright, for example, and put a price tag of, say $15 on it...and Copyright note that says something like "The persons name listed as watermark on the bottom of every page has permission to print this booklet for personal use only" (so that we could take it down to a local print shop, Staples, Kinko's, or whatever, and not get hassled about copyright and requiring faxes and other PITA things). I'd buy ALL of them. Dark Sun, Birthright, Greyhawk, Eberron, Council of Wyrms even, all of them.Would WotC make tons of money off this? Doubt it. But what they would get is gratitude and good will from everyone who plays in these games. That, in turn, would lead to more playing of the game and likely buying of more core books. People who used to play and hear all the good stuff about 5e, but then hear "FR only"...and think "well, crap...hated FR...always played in Greyhawk/Dark Sun/Birthright/whatever...I'll wait until they come out with that campaign setting for it then give it a go" (and yes, I have read of some people asking about 5e, some on these forums, who say basically that...interested, but not if I 'have' to play in FR).Anyway...yeah, simple "b/w document info" style PDF's of the other TSR worlds would be fantastic. They don't need to spend months of RnD, hundreds of man hours designing layout, typesetting, art direction, or the tens of thousands on full-colour artwork. I/we don't care. Just give us a DM friendly document we can read and print that allows us to more easily run 5e D&D in our favored setting. Is that too much to ask? Really? If so...pay some freelancer a few bucks to do it. Believe it or not, a lot of us who have been playing this thing called "D&D" for the last nigh-half-century (!) will be doing this anyway...WotC may as well just put out a "call for submissions for Bare-Bones Campaign Setting - [SettingName]". Give some basic criteria, and then let the conversion documents roll in. The winner gets some cash and a freelance job to finish the project up to WotC's satisfaction. POOF! Every setting they ever put out is now going to be up for purchase.Just a thought. <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=":)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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