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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pramas" data-source="post: 1948226" data-attributes="member: 995">If you look at it as WotC vs. any one competitor, yes. I'm sure no one at WotC loses sleep over what Green Ronin might do in 2005, for example. I think it's an entirely different picture when you look at the d20 market in aggregate. Every d20 product ever released is competition for WotC's D&D dollars. Every one says, "Hey, if you like D&D, check me out." Over the past four and a half years, literally thousands of d20 publications have been released. I simply don't believe that the money spent on these products appeared from the Ether. It came from somewhere and one of the biggest places it came from is D&D. Now sure, a few folks may have been brought in here or there by a cool setting or a license or somesuch, but by and large it's D&D players who buy d20 stuff. I remember one distributor mentioning a couple of years back that in one three month period, there were as many d20 releases as all the products released for the life of 1st Edition AD&D. Now granted, things have cooled out in past year. A lot of companies have dropped out or scaled back, so it's not quite the same as the frenzied years. Nonetheless, I think it's undeniable that d20 as a whole has had an effect on D&D's bottom line. So does WotC care that GR released the Black Company? Probably not. But it should care that Black Company, Hamunaptra, Midnight, Scarred Lands, Warcraft, Diamond Throne, Iron Kingdoms, etc. are all out there and all offering viable alternatives to WotC's own material.</blockquote>

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