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<blockquote data-quote="Najo" data-source="post: 3943983" data-attributes="member: 9959">Ryan Dancey's review of TSR and its sales showed that all of the settings had done a splintering of the D&amp;D market and divided up the sales. What wasn't shown accurately was that the splintering was also caused by TSR's focus on publishing for DMs instead of players. Almost everything that released for the settings was a product aimed at the DMs. That, and the products duplicated each other a bit. The result, all of the campaigns were initially cancelled.&nbsp; &nbsp;The theory with 3.0 was a return to Greyhawk becuase it was D&amp;D's history and the most setting neutral. Greyhawk was an expriment to see who really cared about it. very little risk hsa been taken with Greyhawk, the closest thing it got for a book was the Living Greyhawk Gazatteer, and that was never reprinted for 3.5. Forgotten Realms was supported becuase the novels do so well and the world has so much history, but WOTC has admitted the sales could be better. Eberron was an attempt to make a new setting for the 3.5 rules and an experiement to gather creative material from 11,000 people. Dragonlance was liscensed out to its creators (and I don't think did well), again very little risk for WOTC. Every Dragon issue with campaign setting materials from the past revisted has sold out. When polled, planescape is at the top. It sold well then, it is the setting everyone talks about still, it is the one everyone in the industry that worked on it is excited about. If you read the books Worlds of TSR and 30 years of D&amp;D you can get comments directly from the people who worked on the game.&nbsp; WOTC played it conservative with 3.0 and 3.5's settings. The buzz now is that they are returning to the campaign settings with 4e. I wouldn't be surprised if Planescape is going to get revisted sooner than later.You can't single out Planescape or Darksun when all of TSR's settings were cancelled.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Najo, post: 3943983, member: 9959"] Ryan Dancey's review of TSR and its sales showed that all of the settings had done a splintering of the D&D market and divided up the sales. What wasn't shown accurately was that the splintering was also caused by TSR's focus on publishing for DMs instead of players. Almost everything that released for the settings was a product aimed at the DMs. That, and the products duplicated each other a bit. The result, all of the campaigns were initially cancelled. The theory with 3.0 was a return to Greyhawk becuase it was D&D's history and the most setting neutral. Greyhawk was an expriment to see who really cared about it. very little risk hsa been taken with Greyhawk, the closest thing it got for a book was the Living Greyhawk Gazatteer, and that was never reprinted for 3.5. Forgotten Realms was supported becuase the novels do so well and the world has so much history, but WOTC has admitted the sales could be better. Eberron was an attempt to make a new setting for the 3.5 rules and an experiement to gather creative material from 11,000 people. Dragonlance was liscensed out to its creators (and I don't think did well), again very little risk for WOTC. Every Dragon issue with campaign setting materials from the past revisted has sold out. When polled, planescape is at the top. It sold well then, it is the setting everyone talks about still, it is the one everyone in the industry that worked on it is excited about. If you read the books Worlds of TSR and 30 years of D&D you can get comments directly from the people who worked on the game. WOTC played it conservative with 3.0 and 3.5's settings. The buzz now is that they are returning to the campaign settings with 4e. I wouldn't be surprised if Planescape is going to get revisted sooner than later. You can't single out Planescape or Darksun when all of TSR's settings were cancelled. [/QUOTE]

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