What do you think WotC should be making?

[Christoph the Magus]

A Greyhawk campaign book.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Connected series of adventures. Like the Slavelords series A1-A4; Master of the Desert Nomads series X4, X5, X10; The Giants/Drow/Queen series G1-G3, D1-D2, Q; The Lendor Isles series L1-L3; The Saltmarsh series...; From a 3rd-party, the Witchfire Trilogy.

Maybe not an beginning-to-end Adventure Path again, but short series are pretty nice. Load them up with adventure hooks with which a GM can spin off his own stuff. Plus, it shouldn't be difficult to make them generic enough to fit any average Homebrew.

 

[demiurge1138]

More "prestige" monster books, like Draconomicon, Libris Mortis and Lords of Madness. I want to see a detailed, lavishly illustrated book on fiends and their society, and other iconic monster types like fey and giants would also be interesting. And there's certainly enough aberrations out there for Lords of Madness II.

Demiurge out.

 

[teitan]

I would eat up a hardcover, deluxe edition of Greyhawk like a fat kid eating cupcakes! The Living Greyhawk Gazeteer is an interesting piece of work but reading it is worse than reading a high school geo book and it has little in way of 3e snippets. I think WotC would be wise to publish a 3e Greyhawk book with the Greyhawk specific prestige classes from the class books like the Knight of the Great Kingdom, Eye of Gruumsh etc. and take the chance to revise the setting description to be a bit more interesting, give a nice detailed account of the core deities and the Great Wheel cosmology, NPCs etc. If done right I think WotC could have a knock out product for Greyhawk that makes fans turn their heads and SEE that Greyhawk isn't bland and boring and is quite exciting. Look at the Pomarj! The intrigue in the Great Kingdom! The classic Dungeons! Instead of publishing sourcebooks like we get for FR Wizards could publish adventures that flesh out towns and such instead like in the 1e days. Think about the imagery of an adventure Called Death Knights of the Flanaess! Urpising in the Pomarj! The Scarlet Brotherhood strikes! Some of the most popular modules in 3e from Dungeon have taken place in Greyhawk! And WotC shouldn't worry about stepping on the toes of the regions in Living Greyhawk. Its just two different campaigns!

I would actually like to see WotC do more settings, re-releases and original material. Without an overreaching metaplot to their products D&D has only so many sourcebooks that can be done. I think they should continue ongoing support of Eberron and FR and then release a new setting once a year with a core book, a races book and a magic book and some adventures. In this way they keep things interesting and fresh and at the same time they aren't over committed to products like TSR was with their four concurrent campaign settings plus one or two settings that inevitably got cancelled within a couple o years (Dark Sun, Birthright, Mystara etc).

I would like to see a World Builder's Guidebook to help those DM's who want to create their own settings from the ground up and approaches th concept from the two different directions, helping the DM flesh it out as he goes along. It would include an adventure primer etc.

More genre series of books.

Planar adventures, even if not Planescape, Planar adventures are very popular adn something that many a DM loves to run because of the sheer amount of imagination they can put into these adventures.

Jason

 

[GrayLinnorm]

I'm probably gonna get slapped for this but I want to see:

Fiend Folio 2

Me too. I'd also like to see more Monster Manuals, a new version of the Encyclopedia Magica (with expanded treasure tables), more monster class and enviroment books. Except for the Spell Compendium, most of the books coming out just don't seem interesting. I also support putting the enviroment books in the SRD, as well as Monster Manual II-III, Fiend Folio, Draconomicon, the Arms and Equipment Guide, and Libris Mortis. How come the d20 Modern SRD is being updated faster than the Dungeons & Dragons one?

 

[Aus_Snow]

what RPG products do think they should produce to achieve the most profit?

Not sure, but I'll have a stab at it.

More sci-fi stuff? Supplements/settings/adventures for d20 Future, IOW.
2nd ed campaign settings redone - properly - for d20 (Ravenloft, Planescape, Dark Sun, Al Qadim, Birthright etc.)
Completion of the environment series?
More adventures in general.


Keep in mind, I'm answering the question as is, in good faith, and therefore setting aside my own preferences and wishes.



edit --- and for those who haven't quite got the idea so far...

What roleplaying products do you think WotC should be producing over the next year or so from a business point of view? Note well that that this doesn't mean what you yourself want them to make

 

[CRGreathouse]

I'd like to see a book devoted to Epic material, focused on DM material (magic items, monsters, alternate rules/rules variants, and running epic campaigns).

 

[Orius]

Yeah, I'd love to see a big shiny new Greyhawk book. Then I could read even more posts from the old guard about how much it sucks because it includes stuff about the Greyhawk Wars and doesn't mesh at all well with their homebrews.

 

[KenM]

I'd like to see more adventures. I heard a few are coming out. I would also like to see boxed sets come back.

 

[Babylon Knight]

3.5 Forgotten Realms campaign setting.

Before anyone mentions the glorified 3.5 update, the Players Guide to Faerun, I am well aware of that.

I am speaking of a new book, completely up to date to 3.5 perhaps with some new material to boot.