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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2875796" data-attributes="member: 1515">The problem is probably lack of sales.WotC got out of publishing adventures in the first place because the conventional wisdom was that they don't sell particularly well (The Sigil notes the reasons why, above).  Their hope was that the third-party publishers would step in and fill that role.  Well, they did, for a while, and then many of them got back out of it...likely due to weak sales.Were the weak sales due to the adventures not being appealing enough, because they didn't contain the non-OGL crunch in the WotC books?  It's hard to say.  I've bought a lot of third-party adventures in the past 6 years...and, you know what?  An awful lot of them were just bad...poorly written and edited.  That's a flaw that more OGL wouldn't cure.I think, as several others have noted here, the resurgance of Dungeon in recent years may have something to do with it, as well.As you note, WotC has now reconsidered, because they do apparently believe that the niche needs to be filled by someone.</blockquote>