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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CRG" data-source="post: 261690" data-attributes="member: 5867">I think the actual resolution and summary was described a few pages back...Fact - Various products are not as profitable as the Haze-Bros wantFact - The Toast-Boys are looking for ways to make some of their products more profitable or at least meet the targets of sales, etc. on the metrics that the Haze-Bros requireFact - If things go as they presently do, many of these products will miss those targetsFact - If that occurs products such as those may not be produced by the Toast-boys anymoreAssumption - If correlation is drawn between this and the post by Mr Dancey about the Toast-boys producing a few core rulebooks and then licensing out all future development is used as a base, one could see a point in time where the Rum production becomes like the DragonPants or RaisinLoaf production.  This means one or two base books coproduced by the Toast boys with another company and then that other company producing future material under license.Conclusion - The market from the Toast-boys will become crunch heavy.*** not necessarily a bad thingConclusion - The third-party companies will produce the fluff and crunch (as well as just plain fluff) baked goods under license at a lower profit margin and thus still be able to function.*** not necessarily a bad thingConclusion - To do this, elves will start migrating from the Toast-boys to other bakeries.*** not necessarily a bad thingConclusion - This doesn't mean the end of the Rums, but it may mean a drastically smaller focus for the Rums and maybe even a transition time period where new material is virutually non-existent for the Rums.*** not necessarily bad things but could hurt the Rums a bitConclusion - With the Toast-Boys producing mostly crunch and yet holding supreme license over the Donut Cores (with the noted exception of the OGL/D20 capabilities) it puts production of Donut Cores in the hands of a group which becomes increasingly dis-interested in the fluff.*** at some point people may wonder what value the Toast-Boys continue to provide - if a new movie / setting is produced and they want to license a game, who will win that business?</blockquote>

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