King of Old School
First Post
You seem to have an idiosyncratic definition of "grandstand." I don't see anything ostentatious in what Pramas is saying. Nor do I see fair grounds to doubt his claims -- just because game companies don't discuss sales numbers publicly, doesn't mean that game company personnel don't exchange information amongst themselves. And the janitor analogy is disingenuous.C. Baize said:And I don't know any publishers that don't grandstand to a degree, so I call 'em as I see 'em.
That's less relevant here than when discussing, say, a third-party d20 fantasy product versus a branded D&D product from Wizards. You're not even comparing a third-party standalone game to a Wizards' standalone game, i.e. D&D or d20M. In this case, you're comparing a third-party standalone game to a supplement for a game that is a lot less popular than D&D. Supplements almost always sell less than their corebooks, and I'd wager that the dropoff for d20M supplements has been typically steep if their reduced availability is any indication.And it still looks that way. If for no other reason than those gamers who think that if it comes from WotC it's automatically better/more official/whatever they have in their heads.
KoOS