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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 6768162" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>D&D is not the only fish in the sea and other fish take care of the those that buy their game. They don't alienate</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't need to buy FR stuff to filch a little bit from it, and I certainly won't spend what WotC is charging in order to take a little material for my game. I'm only going to buy it if I'm going to use the vast majority of the product, in which case I'm playing FR.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>100% is impossible, that doesn't mean that you don't satisfy anyone outside of a single group. What you don't seem to be getting is that those that buy the realms also buy other settings. Of the 5 other regular DMs I've played with over the years, 4 of them and myself bought multiple campaign settings and supplements during 2e. </p><p></p><p>So no, you don't put out options that only 1% want, but neither do you ignore options that say 20-30% want just because you have a setting that 35% currently play.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And all the fans that they are alienating with that decision, and there are a whole lot of them, could cost them more in the long run than they are making short term. I won't stay with a game that doesn't offer me support, and I know many others like that as well.</p><p></p><p></p><p>My read on the article was that the might set an adventure in say Ravenloft, but not actually make a Ravenloft setting. That's not setting support as it requires the DM to create Ravenloft for 5e in order to use it, or else just have one adventure in Ravenloft and then leave, which prevents it from being used as a setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 6768162, member: 23751"] D&D is not the only fish in the sea and other fish take care of the those that buy their game. They don't alienate I don't need to buy FR stuff to filch a little bit from it, and I certainly won't spend what WotC is charging in order to take a little material for my game. I'm only going to buy it if I'm going to use the vast majority of the product, in which case I'm playing FR. 100% is impossible, that doesn't mean that you don't satisfy anyone outside of a single group. What you don't seem to be getting is that those that buy the realms also buy other settings. Of the 5 other regular DMs I've played with over the years, 4 of them and myself bought multiple campaign settings and supplements during 2e. So no, you don't put out options that only 1% want, but neither do you ignore options that say 20-30% want just because you have a setting that 35% currently play. And all the fans that they are alienating with that decision, and there are a whole lot of them, could cost them more in the long run than they are making short term. I won't stay with a game that doesn't offer me support, and I know many others like that as well. My read on the article was that the might set an adventure in say Ravenloft, but not actually make a Ravenloft setting. That's not setting support as it requires the DM to create Ravenloft for 5e in order to use it, or else just have one adventure in Ravenloft and then leave, which prevents it from being used as a setting. [/QUOTE]
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