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<blockquote data-quote="Trickster Spirit" data-source="post: 7670843" data-attributes="member: 6701829"><p>On the other hand, if WotC's intention is for 5E to last twice or thrice as long as previous editions, that could be the reason they're not rushing to put out material for multiple settings at once - it could be that 5E will see exactly the same amount of setting products as the last two editions, just over a longer timeframe.</p><p></p><p>It would make sense that if they spaced out their releases more, two things would happen: A) peoples wallets would have time to recover between products, and B) people's appetite for another D&D setting product would recover as well. Sure, we hardcore fans will always want more, more, more, but I bet you that they're seeing a larger percentage of the player base buy each release just because they've not saturated the market with other releases. If you're at a restaurant, sure it's great at first if they keep bringing out more food for you to try, but eventually you're going to get full, even if you're a gourmand who loves all of the dishes. Wizards might just be giving everyone time to digest between courses. </p><p></p><p>Of course, some folks are getting hungry and threatening to go to another restaurant. Time will tell if Wizards is misjudging the window of time it takes to "digest" but I'd expect they've nailed the amount of time the average player waits between purchases. We're all probably outliers as we're big enough fans to go out of our way talking about D&D in our spare time on online forums. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> </p><p></p><p>Right now it's APs they're limiting themselves to, but the same logic would apply to campaign settings and player's option books. They might come out with plenty of those over the lifetime of the edition, but if they're planning a 20 year edition instead of a 4 year edition, we'll see 5x the amount of time between those books as we all originally expected.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think we may eventually get a third AP after another year or two, as I think it's less about people going through two or more APs in a year, and more about having a library of campaigns for newcomers and time-crunched DMs to jump into. I think the prep-time requirements are one of the hobby's weakest points, and that the APs are their solution to that. TTRPGs have so many advantages over video games and other forms of entertainment but the one area they'll never compete in is ease of use. APs at least minimize the work a DM has to put in to get a campaign off the ground. I'm fairly positive the casual audience is an order of magnitude or two larger than the hardcore fanbase, so it's likely smartest for them to focus on making it easy for them to remain in the hobby as customers / brand ambassadors.</p><p></p><p>(I also think somewhat paradoxically that prep-work can also be one of the hobby's greatest strengths, as a skilled DM can tailor make a campaign that evolves with the players' choices and is 1000x more interesting than a canned AP could ever be.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickster Spirit, post: 7670843, member: 6701829"] On the other hand, if WotC's intention is for 5E to last twice or thrice as long as previous editions, that could be the reason they're not rushing to put out material for multiple settings at once - it could be that 5E will see exactly the same amount of setting products as the last two editions, just over a longer timeframe. It would make sense that if they spaced out their releases more, two things would happen: A) peoples wallets would have time to recover between products, and B) people's appetite for another D&D setting product would recover as well. Sure, we hardcore fans will always want more, more, more, but I bet you that they're seeing a larger percentage of the player base buy each release just because they've not saturated the market with other releases. If you're at a restaurant, sure it's great at first if they keep bringing out more food for you to try, but eventually you're going to get full, even if you're a gourmand who loves all of the dishes. Wizards might just be giving everyone time to digest between courses. Of course, some folks are getting hungry and threatening to go to another restaurant. Time will tell if Wizards is misjudging the window of time it takes to "digest" but I'd expect they've nailed the amount of time the average player waits between purchases. We're all probably outliers as we're big enough fans to go out of our way talking about D&D in our spare time on online forums. :p Right now it's APs they're limiting themselves to, but the same logic would apply to campaign settings and player's option books. They might come out with plenty of those over the lifetime of the edition, but if they're planning a 20 year edition instead of a 4 year edition, we'll see 5x the amount of time between those books as we all originally expected. I think we may eventually get a third AP after another year or two, as I think it's less about people going through two or more APs in a year, and more about having a library of campaigns for newcomers and time-crunched DMs to jump into. I think the prep-time requirements are one of the hobby's weakest points, and that the APs are their solution to that. TTRPGs have so many advantages over video games and other forms of entertainment but the one area they'll never compete in is ease of use. APs at least minimize the work a DM has to put in to get a campaign off the ground. I'm fairly positive the casual audience is an order of magnitude or two larger than the hardcore fanbase, so it's likely smartest for them to focus on making it easy for them to remain in the hobby as customers / brand ambassadors. (I also think somewhat paradoxically that prep-work can also be one of the hobby's greatest strengths, as a skilled DM can tailor make a campaign that evolves with the players' choices and is 1000x more interesting than a canned AP could ever be.) [/QUOTE]
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