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<blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1956137" data-attributes="member: 10201">However, that's not the Skaff Effect, as posited by Ryan Dancey (and others): the claim was that all RPG sales ultimately benefit the market leader in RPGs--not just D20 System sales. If the Skaff Effect is true, then the more nWoD sells, the better WotC does; the more the folks over at The Forge thrive, the more money WotC makes; and so on. I can't say it's definitely not true, but neither is it self-evidently true. I'd think that at least *some* other RPGs would compete with D&amp;D sales. Or, perhaps that we'd have more like an oligopoly, rather than a monopoly--that several &quot;cartels&quot; would exist, which feed into each other. Maybe D20 System, WWGS, The Forge, Palladium, frex. &nbsp;&nbsp;I'm skeptical that, even in the long term, the D20 System-haters over at The Forge, frex, will ever contribute, directly or indirectly, to WotC's sales, frex.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="woodelf, post: 1956137, member: 10201"] However, that's not the Skaff Effect, as posited by Ryan Dancey (and others): the claim was that [i]all[/i] RPG sales ultimately benefit the market leader in RPGs--not just D20 System sales. If the Skaff Effect is true, then the more nWoD sells, the better WotC does; the more the folks over at The Forge thrive, the more money WotC makes; and so on. I can't say it's definitely not true, but neither is it self-evidently true. I'd think that at least *some* other RPGs would compete with D&D sales. Or, perhaps that we'd have more like an oligopoly, rather than a monopoly--that several "cartels" would exist, which feed into each other. Maybe D20 System, WWGS, The Forge, Palladium, frex. I'm skeptical that, even in the long term, the D20 System-haters over at The Forge, frex, will ever contribute, directly or indirectly, to WotC's sales, frex. [/QUOTE]

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