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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5454934" data-attributes="member: 82106">I'm pretty sure GSL only covers core stuff. You can refer to the main books, but something like FR is totally proprietary. Of course WotC could license adventures set there if they wished. Generally the problem with adding more detail to existing campaign settings is they've tried it. People didn't really buy it. At best that kind of stuff is a loss making product that might help support core book sales. I'd imagine this is why 4e settings have been announced to be highly limited product sets. Probably also explains why they are rehashes of the most popular settings. They could sell 2 FR/DS/EB books without taking a bath.Truthfully if you're going to make any kind of money off a setting it has to be a pretty compelling setting. I would be hard pressed to think of any such ever made by WotC. They managed to bring out Eberron, which is pretty good, but still wasn't done in-house. Rehashes of various 2e-era settings is unlikely to cut it. WotC does pretty good crunch, they just aren't THAT creative.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5454934, member: 82106"] I'm pretty sure GSL only covers core stuff. You can refer to the main books, but something like FR is totally proprietary. Of course WotC could license adventures set there if they wished. Generally the problem with adding more detail to existing campaign settings is they've tried it. People didn't really buy it. At best that kind of stuff is a loss making product that might help support core book sales. I'd imagine this is why 4e settings have been announced to be highly limited product sets. Probably also explains why they are rehashes of the most popular settings. They could sell 2 FR/DS/EB books without taking a bath. Truthfully if you're going to make any kind of money off a setting it has to be a pretty compelling setting. I would be hard pressed to think of any such ever made by WotC. They managed to bring out Eberron, which is pretty good, but still wasn't done in-house. Rehashes of various 2e-era settings is unlikely to cut it. WotC does pretty good crunch, they just aren't THAT creative. [/QUOTE]

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