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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 2263100" data-attributes="member: 6957">Hmmm, looking at my group as an example - I have 6 players, and I am the DM.Most of the players bought at least one of the 3.0 splat books each, some bought more. I bought all of them. So that is 10 splats plus.We all have the PHP and I have a spare, 3 of us have the DMG, 2 have the MM - 13 core rule books.Third party stuff... going with Iron Kingdoms - 6 of us have bought the fluff book, three of us have bought the crunch book. The fluff book was bought by players of WARMACHINE as well as the RPG. They bought it as much for the wargame as for the RPG. The crunch book is less useful to them since it is only for the RPG.If I am running a premade adventure I will buy 1 copy. But most of my stuff is homebrew. I have bought six 3.x adventures total, and am the only one in the group to have done so. To stay with Iron Kingdoms I have the Witchfire Trilogy.The money ain't in the adventures!Back in the day of the modules that Cerebrim mentioned there really was not a lot of widely available competion for TSR, you could go to a bookstore and find D&D, but you had to find a specialist game store to buy Runequest. Where I lived visiting the game store meant travelling sixty miles... TSR outsold their competition because most people didn't even know that there was competition. It was the mid 80s that I started seeng other games than D&D on the bookstore shelves. Even then it was limited, FASA was the one that I remember seeing the most, and then Chaosium's Thieves World boxed set. After that the store finally started carrying Call of Cthulhu, which had been around for quite some time. For anything else I had to take the sixty mile trip, an hour travel each way.Now WotC has competition, and because they are trying to make their adventures palatable to the widest possible range of customer the adventures are a bit bland, offending few, delighting few, sort of RPG McDonald's. This is my opinion of why WotC has no 'great modules' - they are avoiding anything that is really earthshaking or controversial. But earthshaking and controversial does not make for a best seller.WotC does realize that adventures help raise interest in a setting, so we will begin seeing more adventures in both Eberron and Forgotten Realms, but they also realize that adventures sell to a limited cross section of their audience, so we will not see very many.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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