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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1947611" data-attributes="member: 158">I think the conclusions are slightly off, for the following reasons:-There's a good bit of cross-pollination going on with WotC's campaign supplements. I've heard more than one individual taking Eberron and running it with everything from GURPS to White Wolf Storyteller! <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=":)" /> There are several people out there buying material more for flavor text than actual rules, and though they are dwarfed by the standard players using it as intended, there is enough to suggest that the markets between various games are glacial.Second, the past two years have shown us the repeated concept that there's WotC, and then there's everybody else. WotC's sales almost stand alone from the d20 competing companies, because while groups experiment with other games for a few months, or a year or two, they keep coming back to D&D, the actual D&D line.Do you by chance remember the threads last month concerning a Gencon SoCal seminar where a bunch of d20 and non-d20 industry professionals were saying that the RPG market is starting to die off again? Charles Ryan (D&D line manager) piped in and said that the D&D line is still going strong - now this is all D&D, miniatures included, but the point is that their sales even in the worst of times are still noticeably better than all other competitors.Keep also in mind that OGL means that rules that are noticably better can be "stolen" and used by WotC in D&D! So even the mechanics cannot bar WotC from competing in sales. It comes down solely to ideas and packaging, and if WotC can't compete on those fronts, then it's doing something really wrong, because they have the biggest industry pool of talent working for them at any given time than that of any other game company.In other words, WotC is STILL the 500 pound gorilla, and though other game companies may do great or poorly, it's almost like talking about two separate markets and player bases.</blockquote>

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