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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 9672939" data-attributes="member: 6998052">Not a lot of profit in bones, sadly.RPGs are a tricky product; not many hobbies exit where a percentage, possibly more than half, of the participants will buy the product. I do competitive tactical shooting as my primary hobby, and have for decades, and the buy-in never ends; I've many firearms, and more than a few have accessories mounted on them that cost more than the firearm itself, often by a multiple of three or four. Not to mention ammunition, targets, and other consumables; it literally never ends.Many hobbies are the same: there's a never-ending expenditure.But TTRPGs? Of my current six players, only one has purchased a gaming product in the last few years. I personally spend very little money on TTRPGs in a year beyond my Roll20 Pro account and tokens. So publishers have to find a way to milk a very small herd; new editions and endless splatbooks are the method they have chosen. I believe that in the long run this approach will fail them, but time will tell.I personally seldom welcome news of a new rules edition.</blockquote>