Web enhancement

A web enhancement is a bonus expansion to a role-playing game product, that can be read and/or downloaded from the website of the company that published the role-playing product it is associated with.

Concept

The web enhancement concept was created by Sue Weinlein Cook, who was an editor at Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR) and later the brand manager at Wizards of the Coast (WotC). There is a common belief that web enhancements are created from content cut from the published products, but many of them are specifically commissioned as bonus material.[1]

Wizards of the Coast

Dungeons & Dragons

More than 90 web enhancements were created for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition role-playing game products. Some products had more than one web enhancement created for them.[2]

Wheel of Time

At one time Wizards of the Coast had a licence to create material for The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game and created at least one web enhancement for it.[3]

d20 Modern

At least seven web enhancements were created for products in the d20 Modern product line.[4]

Other companies

Several other role-playing publishers also started to produce online documents that they refer to as web enhancements. These include: Green Ronin,[5] Fantasy Flight Games,[6] and Paizo.[7]

gollark: One byte input -> two to six bytes of lolcrypt.
gollark: I did. It's just that it gets exponentially more slow for each run, since lolcrypt inflates the size lots.
gollark: My inefficient lolcrypt algorithm can only manage about 9LOLcrypt (LOLcrypt repeated 9 times) before crashing with yield errors.
gollark: `hi!` -> `lOL lOL.lOlLol`
gollark: It's not actually encryption, unless you count ROT13 as encryption, in which case it is and please stop talking now.

References
  1. Monte Cook writes about bonus online content in a reply to a thread at The Piazza role-playing forums.
  2. Wizards of the Coast's Web Enhancement Archive for 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons.
  3. More of The Wheel of Time! A Web Enhancement for The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game archived copy at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
  4. Wizards of the Coast's Web Enhancement Archive for d20 Modern.
  5. "Buccaneers of Freeport: Free 3rd Era and True20 Web Enhancements". Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  6. Disciples of the Dark Gods Web Enhancement for Dark Heresy.
  7. Paizo Blog pages tagged with 'Web Enhancement'.
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