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[UPDATED] Has ADVENTURER'S HANDBOOK Been Cancelled?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 7657577" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>If WOTC decides to focus on adventures for pay and the splat content for free, while its a benefit to my budget ,doesn't seem like a smart business decision. They can't really bury it in the book either and hope it spurs sales if that was a plan. Its pretty easy to scan and format a few bits from a page or five and while I sure as heck don't advocate piracy, you can be pretty sure crunch will show up in the Internet within days and that people who wouldn't pirate say the whole book, might just grab the crunch. </p><p></p><p>Even those who won't may well decide to wait till the eventual "best of the adventures unearthed arcane secrets" comes out </p><p></p><p>From a money posture at most each group will buy and play an adventure once but several people will but say an Elemental Heroes Handbook or whatever. Its far more profitable and even limiting splats to one or two a year is still good churn. TSR back in the day stopped focusing on modules as well called them it when they realized that they'd sell several splat books for every adventure and that the customer will get much more use from them anyway. Almost anyone can use new options but lots of people, myself included don't use canned adventures at all. As such, they've essentially lost a lot of people like me as a sale completely. Another thing, splats build excitement for the line as whole , oh I can't wait till the power up handbook 32 comes out whereas adventures are, meh doesn't fit my homebrew so people take it take it or leave it.</p><p></p><p>However it really is wait and see so we will wait and see,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ace, post: 7657577, member: 944"] If WOTC decides to focus on adventures for pay and the splat content for free, while its a benefit to my budget ,doesn't seem like a smart business decision. They can't really bury it in the book either and hope it spurs sales if that was a plan. Its pretty easy to scan and format a few bits from a page or five and while I sure as heck don't advocate piracy, you can be pretty sure crunch will show up in the Internet within days and that people who wouldn't pirate say the whole book, might just grab the crunch. Even those who won't may well decide to wait till the eventual "best of the adventures unearthed arcane secrets" comes out From a money posture at most each group will buy and play an adventure once but several people will but say an Elemental Heroes Handbook or whatever. Its far more profitable and even limiting splats to one or two a year is still good churn. TSR back in the day stopped focusing on modules as well called them it when they realized that they'd sell several splat books for every adventure and that the customer will get much more use from them anyway. Almost anyone can use new options but lots of people, myself included don't use canned adventures at all. As such, they've essentially lost a lot of people like me as a sale completely. Another thing, splats build excitement for the line as whole , oh I can't wait till the power up handbook 32 comes out whereas adventures are, meh doesn't fit my homebrew so people take it take it or leave it. However it really is wait and see so we will wait and see, [/QUOTE]
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