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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 8734436" data-attributes="member: 6807784">I mean, tbh, the reason a lot of these third parties seem like risks and don't do big numbers is because they don't have the money to get a lot of eyes on their content. When Electrum is selling a thousand copies, and Wizards is regularly selling hundreds of thousands, if not millions of copies, then clearly one publisher has more resources for netting an audience. We don't actually know if "The Complete Book of Hyperbole Argument" would be popular or not, because WotC hasn't done it, and no one else who has done it a way to get the audience WotC does.Like seriously. The popularity argument just doesn't make any logical sense. I'm pretty sure 5E selling the Tyranny of Dragons back to back with a different cover and slight changes pretty much explains the situation pretty well. There's tons of better written third party adventures than Tyranny of Dragons, but none of them will ever, ever, ever see the numbers ToD does.We need to abandon the idea that success is the only indicator of quality. I like a lot of what WotC puts out, but they have proven they can put out just about ANYTHING and make huge bank off of it.</blockquote>