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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodelf" data-source="post: 1569389" data-attributes="member: 10201">Based on what i hear on these boards, among other places, the WotC books aren't doing much better. I don't understand the "official product must get preferential treatment" line, however. It seems to me the sensible thing to do is to prefer the good product--and you say yourself that that isn't necessarily WotC. And there's really no logic to your position, either--there are plenty of game designers outside of WotC wath as much or more skill and as much or more experience than those who're in WotC. And WotC doesn't use the hordes of playtesters it did prior to D&D3E, does it? So they don't have that advantage.Anyway, i take the "good until proven otherwise" tack for RPG publishers--i look at everything that, topic-wise, might interest me. You can even disappoint me quite a few times before i'll stop looking at your products. And a whole bunch of disappointments interspersed with some gems won't drive me away, either. In fact, right now i can only think of a very few publishers that i've just plain given up on, and don't even bother checking to see if their new product is any good: WotC, Fast Forward Entertainment, Avalanche Press. There's one other, but i forget the name now--i'd recognize it if i saw one of their products. Oh, and a half-dozen or so really-small press that i'll probably never look at again, but that don't seem to have survived long enough to publish a 2nd product.I dunno how many like me are out there, but if you're a new company i've never heard of, my reflex response is to take a look at your product, rather than to pass it over. You have to establish a reputation before my reflex can possibly become "pass"--otherwise, i might miss something great.</blockquote>

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