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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 1955074" data-attributes="member: 771">I don't know whether or not the d20/OGL licenses are good or bad for WotC, and won't bother guessing.But I will pipe in on the what happens when I go into the store debate going on between Mearls, Pramas, and others.  For me, there is a gaming budget.  No, it's not exact, but generally I spend about $80-$100 per month on RPGs.  Every couple of weeks I feel justified in dropping $40-$50 on a new book and an adventure or some minis.  Anymore than that, and I start to feel a little guilty about my spending, as I'm married and have to share responsibilities for bills an such with my wife.  Furthermore, there is an issue of time.  There are plenty of products out there that I'd like to buy and read if I had time, but I only get a chance to plow through so much material in a month.  There's no point in dropping an extra $50 above my normal spending, as I won't even be able to give the extra product the attention needed to get my money's worth out of it.Furthermore, as someone who's been collecting RPG stuff for 20+ years, I've learned that besides major rulebooks, things generally stay in print for just a short time.  Therefore, I've learned to anticipate what's coming out and buy the stuff I want when it comes out.  Sure if a bunch of cool things come out in August for Gen Con, and nothing cool is happening in September in October, I might go back and buy a book I passed on the first time I flipped through it.  But generally, if I don't buy it within the first 3 weeks its on the shelves, chances are that I won't be buying it at all.So for me at least, though games are certainly luxury purchases, products do compete against each other.  I'm not likely to return to the store and purchase any product that is good enough for me to want at all, I have to choose which I want most.</blockquote>

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