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<blockquote data-quote="moxcamel" data-source="post: 5455182" data-attributes="member: 67954"><p>Yes. The sweet spot for campaign settings seems to be 2 books. Anything beyond that and it's really only the DM buying them. And since roughly only about 1 in 5 players are DMs, it just doesn't make good financial sense to release anything beyond the core world materials.</p><p></p><p>To me, Dungeon and Dragon articles is where additional campaign materials belong. That way they avoid the printing and distribution costs associated with dead tree products, plus they don't have to try to work a few good ideas into a certain number of pages.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I think WotC are creative, it's just that when you're the 500 pound gorilla of the industry, you can't really afford to make products that only appeal to a niche audience. From what I understand, Dark Sun was originally a pretty tough sell to the powers-that-be. Everyone in creative absolutely fell in love with it, but it was so different as to be considered risky. Fortunately it was a smashing success, but then other niche-type products, such as Spelljammer, were considered failures.</p><p></p><p>But again, I think DDI could be a fantastic outlet for edgier products that don't carry a lot of risk. Releasing a new and non-traditional campaign setting as a one-off 64 page PDF would be a very low-risk way of judging interest in more niche products that would either live or die in subsequent Dungeon and/or Dragon articles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moxcamel, post: 5455182, member: 67954"] Yes. The sweet spot for campaign settings seems to be 2 books. Anything beyond that and it's really only the DM buying them. And since roughly only about 1 in 5 players are DMs, it just doesn't make good financial sense to release anything beyond the core world materials. To me, Dungeon and Dragon articles is where additional campaign materials belong. That way they avoid the printing and distribution costs associated with dead tree products, plus they don't have to try to work a few good ideas into a certain number of pages. I think WotC are creative, it's just that when you're the 500 pound gorilla of the industry, you can't really afford to make products that only appeal to a niche audience. From what I understand, Dark Sun was originally a pretty tough sell to the powers-that-be. Everyone in creative absolutely fell in love with it, but it was so different as to be considered risky. Fortunately it was a smashing success, but then other niche-type products, such as Spelljammer, were considered failures. But again, I think DDI could be a fantastic outlet for edgier products that don't carry a lot of risk. Releasing a new and non-traditional campaign setting as a one-off 64 page PDF would be a very low-risk way of judging interest in more niche products that would either live or die in subsequent Dungeon and/or Dragon articles. [/QUOTE]
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