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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7670615" data-attributes="member: 5100">If you weren't selectively reading/quoting, it would probably help. Immediately prior to what you quoted, I said that I was concerned about their statements about the way the Realms would receive setting updates/support and that I wouldn't like that model regardless of what world was used. I have to assume that you're being intentionally obtuse, now.4) Give it a rest and support something, anything else along side the Realms.I'm not actually convinced that "most ... fans want" everything set in the Realms. I'd guess that a plurality of fans do actually want that. I'd also expect that the majority either want it or are willing to accept it. There is a non-trivial subset that actively want something other than the Realms, though. If they announced anything that wasn't set in the Realms, it would appease the third group and not bother the middle.What I'd like to see:Year One: Support the Realms. Set the "Starter Set" in the Realms and do another AP or two there. Release a Campaign Setting or just a Gazetteer to put all the setting material in one spot. The Realms is the biggest seller, so it makes sense.Year Two: Support Eberron (the #2 AFAIK). Set an AP there and release another Gazetteer or hardcover. If the Realms is that big of a machine, then make the autumn AP (assuming two a year is going to be standard) set in the Realms.Year Three: Move on to Ravenloft (no clue what the #3 setting is). Release an AP and a setting book. Go ahead and use the autumn AP to support the Realms.Year Four+: Rinse and repeat through at least a couple more settings (Greyhawk & Dark Sun would be my picks, YMMV). Continue as long as these publications pay for themselves.Long term: Publish one AP per year in whatever the top dog setting is. Use the alternate AP to support one of the others.That is how you build the D&D brand, rather than the Forgotten Realms brand. A savvy Brand Manager would know that he's sitting on a ton of separate brands. The D&D brand is only good for TTRPG and (maybe) video games. The published settings are where he could really suck people in. Of course, that could be what he's doing, just focusing on the Realms until it shows real fruit (say, a movie). To which I'd just ask that they toss us a bone.FWIW, I'd totally buy every AP and setting book, if they followed my model, even those that I've traditionally disliked (Planescape, Realms). Knowing that there's a buffet being set, with each dish being expertly prepared to showcase the subject, I'm much more inclined to sample heavily. One of the reasons I rarely bought campaign settings is that I couldn't see myself using them, long term. Spending the time to be expert enough to run a setting in a non-generic way isn't a great ROI for one-off games. On the other hand, being able to pick up a full campaign for a setting would be awesome and make each one totally worthwhile. I'm sure some would call to me and I'd eventually loop back around, but that's what the annual FR repeat season would be for (for me).Again, I don't hate-hate-hate the Realms. It has elements that I don't love and don't want to use, long term. I also don't want the D&D TTRPG brand to become synonymous with the transmedia Forgotten Realms brand (or that of any setting).</blockquote>

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