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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King of Old School" data-source="post: 2060149" data-attributes="member: 8789">First, if you're seriously suggesting that Spycraft has as many fans as D&D, that's more than a little silly and even AEG would tell you so.  If you're not, then your statement is void of meaning -- every game has some fans, even games that crash and burn out of the market in utter commercial failure have a handful of fans.  So what?As to your comparison, you don't have to buy Eberron or Forgotten Realms products to get D&D rules elements that are core to the fantasy genre; nor as a general rule are D&D supplements dependent on one another, such that to use much of the content of Supplement B you have to have purchased Supplement A.  Spycraft is guilty of both of these things in spades, and even writers for the line will admit as much.  This should come as no surprise, as it has been AEG's publishing model for years.  And as I've said elsewhere, I don't begrudge anyone the right to make a living but it's a surefire way to make me lose interest in a line I would otherwise support.  There are certainly people who accept this publishing strategy, but there are just as certainly people who disdain it and I'm not at all convinced that the former outnumber the latter.KoOS</blockquote>