As to the deal, the approach to lore and sourcebooks seems to be a "less is more" approach. No idea how they think that's working out for the company though.
Did the 3e Realms stuff really sell that badly that they thought it would be better to just do 2 setting books and 1 adventure? If that is the case, and they did sell poorly, I think they should of maybe looked at what they were doing wrong, like for instance the early Realms products, which from what I understand made TSR alot of money, focused more on fluff, I thought the 3.x ones were more crunch heavy, that and they did focus alot on the same areas, I mean exaclty how many sourcebooks/ boxsets do we need on Waterdeep? I think they might of done a little better if they focused more on areas that werent given the spotlight in other editions, like maybe a Campaign Guide to Theymarsh, Id have totally picked that one up!
But anyway, hopefully when this Neverwinter sourcebook comes out people will buy it, and WotC will decide to put out more Realms stuff, we shall see I suppose.
that means
FrPG
FRCG
ECG
Eplayers
whatever module they gor
DScs
monster of athas.
etc...
and DDI support
the DDI is a bust to me as half the stuff I have nointerest in... save the eye on the realms... and th art..... mostly the art..... and eyes on the realms
There was a single module published, and I believe there was a Neverwinter sourcebook of sorts either coming or already out. Obviously I haven't been paying much attention, as there's not that much to pay attention to... but hey, look at the sunny side of things, that's twice as many books as you were thinking there was.
As to the deal, the approach to lore and sourcebooks seems to be a "less is more" approach. No idea how they think that's working out for the company though.
"Less is more" is right- they spread the campaign guide across two books with the "player's guide", and it still had half the content of the 3rd edition Campaign Setting book.
There is a ton of FR content via DDI.
Yes, in large part thanks to you and your brother, although comparing all the hardbacks we got for the circa-1374DR Realms to the 1480DR Realms DDI articles, I'd hardly consider it "a ton." I've already hoovered all that up to start a new Melvaunt / Moonsea campaign. I can only hope that Wizards will see fit to keep feeding us canon and authors like you will be allowed to fill in bits of the 100-year gaps.
...Speaking of Melvaunt, does anybody know of any new sources of information on Melvaunt? I haven't read the last swordmage book yet by Richard Baker, but I think part of that is set in Melvaunt, right? I'm curious as to how the "noble" families stand 100 years on, otherwise I'm picking my own winners...
dont forget the eye on the realms.
To say that the current state of things makes me nervous would be an understatement. I guess the good news is that we have what we have, and I'm fairly confident no one's going to kick down my door and take all the content I've accumulated over the years.
I am excited to see the Neverwinter supplement/setting-within-a-setting. The post-Spellplague Neverwinter seems like a frontier town with a ton of history. I'm basing this feeling on the brief FRCG snippet and the Gauntlgrym novel. It's not much to go on, but I'm intrigued, nonetheless.