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One of the classic things that happens is: a) someone discovers a new angle, and exploits it, creating a splash, and great success. b) a bunch of other people recognize this, and begin to ride the wave, competing with the original, but also expanding the wave. c) even more people get on for...

Fluff vs Crunch A key point to note in the debate (which is about fluff/crunch balance) is that one cannot readily judge opinions by list-postings. After all, very few satisfied customers will bother posting! Are there not some marketing statistical reference points that can be used? Something...

Ahhh. I hadn't noticed (the lack of OGC). Wouldn't this mean that Wizards had plans to write their own epic stuff? It seems that it has backfired, anyway. On the other hand: it makes it easier for me to create an epic adventure now, because I can go from the stuff in 3.5 (OGC), and extend it in...

You know, even as I posted my comment, I was thinking about whether I should have qualified "appeared" with "made headway" or some such thing. However, your reply, and the list you linked me to makes abundantly clear another point I made, which was that anyone who can (and apparently most of...

Interesting points. I have found many a cool time-saver surfing the web. I have created my own spell-list generator that allow combinations of many source books, with over 1000 spells in the database and creates pdfs of the finished list, and I am considering combining this with other time...

You are right that scrutiny _should_ be placed on players' books, but the reality is that it is often lax. As a DM I often have to fend off players wanting to play the latest and greatest class they found in a supplement. Often they are unbalancing to my campaign, and all too often, just plain...

RPG Markets One thing the industry appears not to do very well, is distinguish its market well. It looks quite simple to me: there are DMs, and Gamers. Mongoose understands this, and so sells to players its tons of "quintessential" books (players are of course the larger market), and finances...