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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Boarstorm" data-source="post: 4198578" data-attributes="member: 63913">I concede the point.Trust me, I question the quality of my local stores as well!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I think the reason they stick with D&D products is that... well, they sell.  Many of the more obscure products tend to stay on their shelves forever, so keeping a good stock of them is a way of losing one's shirt faster.Two points here:1) I know next to nothing about the HERO system, so I can't comment on it with any authority.  However, I tend to think someone uses a third-party ruleset for their products because they think it will work best for what they're trying, and not for the popularity of the ruleset.  I know that's kind-of wishy-washy thinking, as game publishing is ultimately a BUSINESS.  Perhaps I'm stating how I believe it SHOULD be instead of how it is.  Regardless, I lost my train of thought half-way through this paragraph, so I'll just stop typing now.  Don't you hate that?2) Superhero is big business these days, very much agreed.  And as a comic book geek, I applaud that explosion onto mainstream awareness.  I'll cross my fingers that this media explosion translates into new, quality game systems.  Not that there aren't good systems out there, just not any that fit my personal tastes (HERO excepted, again, as I haven't tried it).  Fingers crossed that that changes.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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