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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7842925" data-attributes="member: 18">They're both on the AA/AAA borderline. I don't know what's making you think I think one is and not the other.This is an awful lot of money to be doing that with. I mean, how much does it cost to create, print and distribute a sourcebook? Honest question, because I don't know. I'd guess it was a few million. And the return is likely to be pretty solid, particularly as you sell digital copies too which are near pure profit.Here they're throwing at least, I would suggest, $30m against the wall, and it's not a very sticky thing they're throwing. How many books is that the equivalent of?If Hasbro were doing this directly I'd be less concerned, but as it's WotC, and they will be the ones with the red balance sheet when it goes BELLY up, I am concerned.I agree with your scenario re: Tuque (i.e. Tuque convincing WotC that they could do it), but historically that sort of thing has gone badly. WotC has been convinced to let a lot of incompetent and incapable companies create (or fail to create) products for them.Oh well, I guess it can't be as bad as that time they licensed the whole flaming MESS which was the Interplay and Atari D&D licensing deal which blighted the the 3E and 4E era! They have learned to at least not license all their D&D stuff to one company, basically forever (WotC had to sue Atari to get the rights back because Atari, after bumfighting the D&D rights off Interplay, basically sat on them).</blockquote>

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