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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 2459786" data-attributes="member: 944">JMO but this is true of a lot of gamers. Also I think fantasy sales are down do the simple reason there is market saturation. Almost every topic ocncievable has been covered more than once -- there are hundreds of new spells, new PRC's, new core classes, new heck everything The supply of adventures is titanic (WOTC + Goodman +etc) the supply of settings is vast and the supply of utility books (12 new cloaks, 47 hamster spades, 13 bronze gimlets etc etc) The complications are #1 the absolute number of PDF buyers is small (people want print for a myriad of reasons I doubt there are more than 1000 of the 3 MILLION gamers who regularly buy PDF's. Heck I review them and I buy at most 3 a year. I just don't need most of them and I have other hobbies (paperbaxks and minis) that eat my money supply  #2 there is plenty of free stuff that is nearly as good and not even taken from others OGL work #3 most of the products are quite decent --let me rehash #3 -- because most of the products are pretty good it becomes hard to choose from them -- its too much of a good thing #4 Most gamers are players and player don't buy as much. This is for several  reasons, first you only need 1 or 2 (maybe 3) characters per year . this limits what books you want. Not planning to play an Assasin? Won't need any Assassin bookssecond -- support material has no value to you. These books (except character journals) are marketed to DM's not you.  third ---(and this is the reason I seldom play) you are the DM's mercey as too whats allowed. Many DM's have a defualt NO on 3rd party stuff -- this means unless you don't care about playing it and just want to read it, most books are of no use use to you #5 There is not a lot of uncovered ground. As I mentioned above there are only so many varient Clerics a body can use beyond say the ones in UA and (review coming soon) the ones in the Unorthdox line. Toss in Dragon issues and you have an unlimited supply of  Even lucky souls might run 2 campaigns at a time can only use x amount of stuff. Of the 4-6 extra people in your gaming group some may DM (half in my group do) but they may not play D&D and they may not run for quite a while so they aren't necessarily buyers eitherThats my take anyway</blockquote>

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