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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 2858804" data-attributes="member: 2">Don't start bickering and taking stuff personally, folks. This isn't a yelling match.While I know you're trying to neutrally describe the current market, I'll respectfully disagree with the above description. Rather than being a non-entity, Malhavoc is one of the gorillas of the remaining d20 publishers: good reputation, solid product, high quality, reasonable sales. Saying that they've needed to specialize into a product line isn't an insult, of course, and I understand that you lament the lack of a variety of Malhavoc product lines. Nevertheless, I suspect that the high ends books and fun ancillary materials (which will probably be useful even to people who don't have the main book) are going to be a lot more profitable and successful than more generic rules supplements.The problem is, of course, that like everyone else I don't need many more rules supplements. If I'm going to spend my money on a D&D product, I want it to be something pretty special. That's surely the market that Ptolus is aimed at, and I hope it will stimulate a demand for other, similar products.You know, it's interesting that this slump was predicted on these forums back in 2001. I suspect the moribund market will continue to get worse, then 4e will be announced, and everything will pick up nicely once again.</blockquote>