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In one section of the book it states that immortals on the way through apotheosis cannot gain skill points. Then immediately under this the book states that immortals can gain skill points as they level in mortal classes per standard epic characters. These sound like they counter eah other. What...

Cater to other games they play. The larger surviving stores carry multiple games (board, video, books, etc). We carry GW as well as supply mutliple hobbies. RPG's are on the downswing as far as local stores are concerned.

Yeah I'm probably being a bit over dramatic about it. :) Still, we've seen similar patterns. It'll only hurt the game in the long run.

It has been proven that this does not work. Give out things for free, and you get folks looking for handouts. If you want to sell, sell it cheap. In time sensitive markets such as gaming, you also sell it first. No LGS can do this over larger competitors. Confidentiality isn't all that safe...

And how many distributors or LGS's can buy that many? They don't need to. People talk, even when clauses have been established. It's the human factor, and very hard to negate. Look to the leak of both GW and WotC materials for examples. You would also see effects in both business, as neither...

We'd have heard about it by now. Amazon or B&N seeing possible legal action from wizards would be industry news. They won't do anything. Much as we want to believe otherwise, wizards sn't big enough to go after these companies. They can't afford to.

Then why aren't all distributors or LGS's offered this same incentive? By doing nothing to curtail the releases in Amazon or B&N, they have effectively condoned their actions. Wizard's won't do anything because whatever incestive has been established is batter than what they get from LGS's...

Accepting greater bulk sales, even at a lower price than those given to distributiors, is an incentive. Especially if they promise to purchase under the same terms with furture products. No, I'm not. We had customers coming in bragging about receiving their copies from amazon early. When we...

Then why is it that amazon can afford a 50% discount AND ignoring release dates when those buying from distributors cannot?

Then what incentives is amazon giving companies like WotC that allows them to sell these books at such reduced rates that they can't or won't give o these other retailers?

Which begs the question: if this is the case, why isn't amazon selling the item directly?

Wizards tried the computers and gaming tables with the three stores they opened. All it usually garnerd were kids looking to play free games.

Depwnds on how you look at it. 1) Wal-mart hasn't killed off all competition yet. 2) Having your own factories and shipping means under cutting these industries, especially with as much business as Wal-Mart could generate for them. Combine that with telling employees to use welfare for...

This is really not true. I'm an employee of my FLGS, and having a gaming area does not bring in customers. Discounting our product lower than the competition does. We regularly have customers come to us for a product, then go back to another place for the tables. Even though the other place was...

Even with that, the OGL couldn't get its recognition without D&D. It puts them in the same boat. d20 is just as simplicitic at its core.