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Just what I wanted, the joy of completely random character creation combined with the fun of having characters die completely out of my control. YMMV, but never again for me.

What's 1+1? A new player is capable of not understanding why GMs worldbuild. You do, in fact, have some understanding of why GMs worldbuild. You probably have more than many GMs have. You could have asked "why do you worldbuild as a GM", and that would have felt like you're willing to listen...

No, not in the sense I'm talking about. When I go to DriveThruRPG and to Smashwords, they don't need more information to offer me a price, and I don't need to know about how much what they're doing costs them. They can just say "the PDF is $16". But if I go a store that's going to mail me...

Then all the people offering stuff for FREE (plus $6.95 s&h) on TV or now on Wish are really, really generous. Which misses the point; I was arguing the myriad costs are and should be "hidden" in the price. But you can't hide shipping to the end user in the price, because it varies, so that...

When a product is advertised at some low price plus S/H, where all the profit is hidden in the S/H hidden in the fine print, I feel that ranges from sleazy to outright fraudulent. Here's the thing; I'm paying for the book. When I walk into a bookstore or game store, I pay whatever the price is...

So, in one case it doesn't matter because it was a screw-up of D&D's owners, and in the other it doesn't matter because it was the competitor's success. There's three reasons businesses stop being on top; they stop doing well, their opponents start doing better, and :):):):) happens (war...

D&D was only being beat when it wasn't sucking so bad its owners couldn't afford to publish anything. That sounds credible. TSR could have easily taken D&D down with them (someone would have bought it, like someone bought PanAm; fly PanAm recently?), and Hasbro stopping producing 4E was a...

Something no one else has even come close to being? White Wolf seems to have been the market leader at one point. In the period after WotC bought TSR, Paizo has been the only company that has challenged WotC, but I don't believe that's surprising in markets with as much lock-in as RPGs. They...

They also provided the right product at the right time. People wanted a new base for D20 gaming, and Pathfinder provided it. The closest anyone else really tried was Castles & Crusades, and it didn't seem to be aiming at the same target (not helped by the fact the target wasn't visible in 2004...

Neither of which sell on the Dungeon Masters Guild, so that's not relevant. Even before this, Dungeon Masters Guild wasn't really inviting to third party publishers, who can't list their company name under publisher, which instead gets to be "Dungeon Masters Guild".

Except they do all the time. It's not simple, but I think you're far underestimating the number of people who are willing to toss a few bucks at a professional looking Kickstarter that's offering something believable. You also could take those numbers and point out that only 2% of the books on...

The ebook market started in 1989. The modern, totally mainstream era started with the Kindle in 2008. Even in the RPG market, Wizards still doesn't sell PDFs of their 5e Player's Handbook, and Wizards and several other game companies came long after Steve Jackson Games in selling PDFs. They...

To quote Lovecraft: Going less dark places, monsters and demons are "races" of always evil things.

But D&D started out with just the Lawful-Chaotic axis, and Good v. Evil is hardly very distinctive to Tolkien. The races are notably Tolkien, but "there's bad guys and it's okay to beat them up" permeates pop culture works long before Tolkien, and is very convenient for old-school D&D games. You...

Again, that's 15 years after the ebook market started, and ten before the major players in the RPG industry jumped in. Yes, I suspect that's true of all the major RPG companies. It is, of course, doubly true of Hasbro, but Paizo doesn't produce anything in PDF it hasn't printed (except for...

Do you have any evidence of that? Webpages don't count, because they weren't around when the ebook market began in 1989. That's not just sarcastic; it took a long time for ebooks to become profitable, and major publishers reasonably took some time to jump in on it. However, Steve Jackson Games...

Which is irrelevant; as you pointed out, we're discussing GURPS coming to DriveThruRPG, which has nothing to do with Steve Jackson Games joining the PDF distribution business. GURPS being sold as PDFs and Steve Jackson Games running a PDF distribution website are two completely different...

So out of RPGNow/DriveThruRPG, Paizo, E23, and the OpenGamingStore, they are the second oldest RPG PDF marketer still on the net. That does not make them a late adopter. If you want to count Steve Jackson Games as selling their own game on PDF, you need to compare them to other game companies...

That depends on what genre of books you're buying. A good chunk of my math books or bibliographies were priced well beyond anything you could justify from printing. E23 showed the number of copies sold of their PDFs*, giving us information about how much they were making from a PDF. A decent...

Still later than who? Then what was the point of bringing up DriveThruRPG in the first place? The fact is, they've had PDFs out over a decade; what releasing them on DriveThruRPG means is by your own statement just your own interpretation. They've released GURPS Lite. This is not about PDFs...