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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8504831" data-attributes="member: 7006">Yeah they are hesitant, because you are only one person out of hundreds of thousands who has made much of an indication that they'd want it.&nbsp; They can't spend all that money producing a series of books to placate one single person, especially considering who knows if you actually would want and buy the setting they came up with?How did Ghostwalk do as a new setting with new ideas for people?&nbsp; How did Council of Wyrms do?&nbsp; Al-Qadim?&nbsp; I'm pretty sure WotC has decades of information telling them how many people actually wanted and spent money on completely new settings, and how much money it would cost them to produce those things in their entirety.&nbsp; And they probably know that for the most part the former sure ain't going to generate the money to cover the latter.I mean come on... why do you think they are producing all these Magic: The Gathering settings for D&amp;D?&nbsp; It's because most of the stuff included in them has already been built, written, and designed!&nbsp; Their work for the RPG is more than halfway already done!&nbsp; They already have the world-building done, they already have NPCs, they already have paid for the art... the new stuff they have to make to finish these books off is probably less that half than what they'd have to make for any completely, entirely new setting.&nbsp; And with the M:tG settings they already know how many people were interested in them from the card game perspective!&nbsp; Now that ain't a one-for-one conversion to the RPG obviously... but it's certainly more information than they'd have from any completely new thing they'd make up.It's all well and good to say &quot;I want something new!&quot;&nbsp; But if WotC has no way of knowing whether you'd actually back up your words with actions... they have no reason to listen to you.&nbsp; And instead, they'll listen to the people who are saying &quot;We love Critical Role, and we actually bought their first Tal'Dorei setting book... we'll buy another one if you make it!&quot;&nbsp; And sure enough... they did.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8504831, member: 7006"] Yeah they are hesitant, because you are only one person out of hundreds of thousands who has made much of an indication that they'd want it. They can't spend all that money producing a series of books to placate one single person, especially considering who knows if you actually would want and buy the setting they came up with? How did [I]Ghostwalk[/I] do as a new setting with new ideas for people? How did [I]Council of Wyrm[/I]s do? [I]Al-Qadim[/I]? I'm pretty sure WotC has decades of information telling them how many people actually wanted and spent money on completely new settings, and how much money it would cost them to produce those things in their entirety. And they probably know that for the most part the former sure ain't going to generate the money to cover the latter. I mean come on... why do you think they are producing all these Magic: The Gathering settings for D&D? It's because most of the stuff included in them has already been built, written, and designed! Their work for the RPG is more than halfway already done! They already have the world-building done, they already have NPCs, they already have paid for the art... the new stuff they have to make to finish these books off is probably less that half than what they'd have to make for any [I]completely, entirely[/I] new setting. And with the M:tG settings they already know how many people were interested in them from the card game perspective! Now that ain't a one-for-one conversion to the RPG obviously... but it's certainly more information than they'd have from any completely new thing they'd make up. It's all well and good to say "I want something new!" But if WotC has no way of knowing whether you'd actually back up your words with actions... they have no reason to listen to you. And instead, they'll listen to the people who are saying "We love Critical Role, and we actually bought their first Tal'Dorei setting book... we'll buy another one if you make it!" And sure enough... they did. [/QUOTE]

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