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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6868302" data-attributes="member: 12731">No I think WotC considers "brand dilution" bad.Even if they thought they could make a hundred supplements and recoup their money on every single one of them, they're not interested. They're after bigger money. To Hasbro, D&D is a brand, a franchise.They want to hone that brand for movies deals, action figures and what not. Board games. Markets that are tenfold if not thousandfold bigger than our hobby.Focusing on one game world, one experience makes perfect sense when the audience isn't the hobby gamer.Publishing Greyhawk or Eberron would interfere with that mission.Perhaps later, though. Witness how the spectacular success of Marvel finally allows them to branch out. Each antman or deadpool is a Greyhawk and an Eberron (no other comparison <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />. They're simply not produced in the ramp-up period, the period when you want to sell "Dungeons & Dragons the experience"If you want a Birthright (and not just a 3PP kind of deal) I honestly think the way forward would be for this strategy to fail, and Hasbro selling off D&D to a small player only operating in our pond (no toys, no games, just rpgs)Then and only then would I buy your theory that we can have TSR levels of support, if only they can control their costs.</blockquote>

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