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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DPGDarrin" data-source="post: 302779" data-attributes="member: 4949">Agreed, defining an average company is probably one of the most difficult things about this process. I think the most fair way to do it would be to go off sales. Of course very few or none of these companies are going to disclose their sales stats. Even so, common sense dictates that based on market penetration and company name recognition, WotC and White Wolf have the odds stacked in their favor. Its one thing to lump everybody into the same category to be fair, but at the same time, most of the companies that are being judged haven't been around for nearly the length of time WotC/TSR has.Another point to consider. WotC has a staff of hundreds, while the average D20 company has a staff of ten or less. Of these ten people, most of them have full time jobs that are completely unrelated to gaming and they publish on the side. Is it really fair to expect them to produce as high a quality piece of work as WotC, which has the staff, the time, the budget, and the experience to make better products?At any rate, on a level playing field, I more or less agree with the results. WotC makes the highest quality D20 products in almost every case, which is one of the reasons I love working there. On the other hand, I know how much blood sweat and tears goes into the production of a non-WotC D20 product, and how one person in a small publishing company ends up wearing the same hats as 5 of the people at WotC. It will be interesting to see where this goes next year. I think the addition of more categories will be helpful.</blockquote>

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