Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 1948193" data-attributes="member: 4">My guess (only a guess) is that the vast majority of those buying OGL games like, say, AU or M&amp;M or C&amp;C, have already been WotC's customer (they bought &quot;the book&quot; that all other books are meant to drive, the PHB, at some point).&nbsp; Buying another game, then, doesn't really hurt WotC, and it could help them by keeping you in the d20 system &quot;network&quot; - perhaps a future WotC product will find its way into your OGL game in some fashion.&nbsp; My other guess is that the assumption that PHB sales might be &quot;flat&quot; is probably incorrect -- even at the end of 2E's reign, I seem to recall reading that 2E PHB sales were still very strong and in fact increasing.&nbsp; Guessing is fun, isn't it?&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="EricNoah, post: 1948193, member: 4"] My guess (only a guess) is that the vast majority of those buying OGL games like, say, AU or M&M or C&C, have already been WotC's customer (they bought "the book" that all other books are meant to drive, the PHB, at some point). Buying another game, then, doesn't really hurt WotC, and it could help them by keeping you in the d20 system "network" - perhaps a future WotC product will find its way into your OGL game in some fashion. My other guess is that the assumption that PHB sales might be "flat" is probably incorrect -- even at the end of 2E's reign, I seem to recall reading that 2E PHB sales were still very strong and in fact increasing. Guessing is fun, isn't it? :) [/QUOTE]

Verification