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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4919955" data-attributes="member: 22779">Hang on a second.  Weren't you the one who earlier talked about following cannon as a requirement for running a consistent campaign?  But, you are absolutely right, it's a personal choice.  But, we're not really talking about my game or your game, we're talking about what works from a business standpoint.  At least, that's the POV I have been taking all along.Having this mountain of canon scares away players.  Yes, there is a segment of fans that want this mountain, but, I'm sorry, just like any hardcore fan group, there's simply not enough of you to make money from.  At least, not enough money anyway.  <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=":)" />  So, the company has two choices.  Keep chasing the hardcore fans with diminishing returns as products are considered "too niche" for a continuously shrinking audience; or, prune back the setting and bring in fresh blood.As I said before, its all about the expectations and perceptions.  The perception is (rightly or wrongly) that playing the FR carries the expectation that you will have this metric butt load of canon to absorb before you can play there.  And, as a side issue, there is almost no module or adventure support in that canon meaning that even if I do absorb all that canon, I'm still at square one when it comes to creating a campaign.You mention Golarion.  I think Paizo has done a fantastic thing here.  Half the campaign support is modules.  Fantastic.  I could play in Golarion for the next couple of years with a bare minimum of work.THAT'S what sells books.  The hardcore guys that spend hours and hours poring over tomes are great and all, but, it's the lazy bastards like me that vastly outnumber the hardcore guy that sells books.</blockquote>

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