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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9678607" data-attributes="member: 18">The vast majority of work being done today in RPGs is primarily on PDFs, and even major Kickstarters often printing much stuff to go to stores, they're sort of working as aggrandized POD.I don't think you can exclude them unless you want intentionally completely ruin the comparison to the point it literally doesn't make sense and provides no informative value whatsoever unless we're solely discussing &quot;what will you find inside your FLGS&quot;? Which is a very different question to the one you asked.I'd invite you to add in the PDF-only figures for GURPS.It's definitely going to be lower per-game in general, though if we include 3PPs, and we should, 5E will probably have many times as much material for it as 2E did, and perhaps multiple times as much as 3E, even.Part of the reason it's going to be lower though is that's there's a lot less cruft and junk. Even when publishing to PDF is pretty cheap compared to physical, designers just aren't into this model of kicking stuff out the door solely for the sake of selling stuff anymore - by and large, anyway. As I noted, doing that helped get WW into trouble and killed TSR.What we aren't seeing though, in general, is the sort of rapid conceptual change within single game lines that we saw in the 1990s. I'm less certain on the reasons for that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9678607, member: 18"] The vast majority of work being done today in RPGs is primarily on PDFs, and even major Kickstarters often printing much stuff to go to stores, they're sort of working as aggrandized POD. I don't think you can exclude them unless you want intentionally completely ruin the comparison to the point it literally doesn't make sense and provides no informative value whatsoever unless we're solely discussing "what will you find inside your FLGS"? Which is a very different question to the one you asked. I'd invite you to add in the PDF-only figures for GURPS. It's definitely going to be lower [I]per-game[/I] in general, though if we include 3PPs, and we should, 5E will probably have many times as much material for it as 2E did, and perhaps multiple times as much as 3E, even. Part of the reason it's going to be lower though is that's there's a lot less cruft and junk. Even when publishing to PDF is pretty cheap compared to physical, designers just aren't into this model of kicking stuff out the door solely for the sake of selling stuff anymore - by and large, anyway. As I noted, doing that helped get WW into trouble and killed TSR. What we aren't seeing though, in general, is the sort of rapid conceptual change within single game lines that we saw in the 1990s. I'm less certain on the reasons for that. [/QUOTE]

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