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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Rasputin" data-source="post: 2884707" data-attributes="member: 8410">Well, the Dungeon explanation does account for some of it, though Dungeon only publishes more traditional fantasy adventures. It is not the place for, say, Scarred Lands adventures, or adventures in a steampunk world.The real problem is that adventures are sales that only appeal to one small part of the gaming market -- Game Masters. The ratio of GMs to players is lower than we think around here, since most die-hard gamers straddle the fence. Add to this that GMs write their own adventures, and that a pre-published adventure has to be very close to ideal for a GM's world for the rewriting process to not be longer than the writing-from-scratch process, and we're talking about a small segment of GMs.Single-adventure products are a losing business proposition. I'd like to think that a book of multiple adventures, geared to a published world (or at least a set of assumptions -- low magic, high tech, or post-apocalpytic) and of varying lengths and levels, would do better, but I have no idea if that would be enough. As for big adventures like Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil or The Red Hand of Doom, those are probably WotC-only since the sheer amount of testing that needs to go into such products is not worth it for the print run for a smaller publisher, and too expensive to do besides.</blockquote>