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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8958148" data-attributes="member: 11760">I joke about Jakandor a lot, but I think producing a new book for it, unless they poured an enormous amount of resources into it, would be a guaranteed money loser. In fact, I think most of these defunct settings would be."I and my two dozen passionate friends would buy it!" isn't enough to sustain a "proper" book, even if there wasn't the opportunity cost of only being X number of slots on the production schedule -- which can be increased, to be sure, but not infinitely.And if one is going to spend a huge amount of hours to make Jakandor a hit, how much more of a hit could WotC produce with those same man hours doing something else?You of all people know, [USER=20941]@havard[/USER], that the fan community can do a great job of keeping older settings alive. If WotC put Mystara and Blackmoor up for grabs on the DMs Guild to produce new fan-pro works, there would likely be an initial flood of good stuff and then an ongoing trickle, as the appetite was largely filled. The fandoms for each would probably grow, some, but there's a finite audience for any of these older settings, as much as you or I may love any of them.Instead of hoping WotC is going to do what they plainly have no intention of doing -- producing in-house books or boxed sets featuring these older settings -- I think everyone's energy would be better spent convincing them to unlock the vault and put at least a few on DMs Guild as a test run.</blockquote>

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