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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kafen" data-source="post: 5074252" data-attributes="member: 11273">Evolution wise, I would love to see the general mood of the community towards keeping the OGL games active evolve into a real policy from the publishers. It would define a very clear shift for both the players and publishers which benefits everyone by clearly defining the market leaders for both the OGL and GSL. Hopefully, it would keep the market intact as a general collective as both lines move forward. Current issue, the lack of real leadership - including WOTC leadership - marks the current market. Whipping out the anecdotal proverbs, I have a local game store where my fellow dnd geeks get together for small games and we talk about the current market. The top subject seems to be who is leading the market.  Some people say WOTC with 4e, and some people say Pathfinder. Overall, the general opinion was... It's an essentially directionless market with publishers like WOTC and Paizo swinging erratic sales*. The store owner let us look at his books and surprised us with equal orders for both 4e books and Pathfinder books when we drafted him into our DND chat. I daresay that most forums reflect this debate with entire "news" sections going dead as the news  market merely fails. When was the last time that any publisher was forced to pick between "best" sites to post his new link to a sample PDF and brag about their new product?  You can tack that problem squarely on the lack of leadership issue as people literally go their different ways with no real industry shakers in the lead to generate much in the way of buzz worthy news. The second issue that irks me? Ink quality. I do not mind paying for books, but some of the stuff we see in some current d20 books just makes me cringe. *erratic sales going by all the previous debates with people going so far as to define the difference between secondary sellers and primary distribution outlets in varying degrees of Wall of Text Posts with made up numbers and even flame wars over things like Amazon.com links.</blockquote>

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