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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 252881" data-attributes="member: 725">No offense Nicole, but i have to agree with Dennis Detwiller. Although his expression might not be the best, a publisher is supposed to follow a certain ettiquette i'm led to believe, but he was honest about his opinions, i can respect that.I think he is right, the D20 market is extremely polluted, it's impossible to track what's out there and what's worthwile. I wouldn't mind it one bit, both as a consumer and a retailer when the D20 bubble bursts. I don't really mind it if there's some variety, but dozens of books on prestige classes makes the market opaque, as a result the consumer loses fate in the market as a whole.Take for example the AEG general D20 line (not the Rokugan line, which is superb!), although each book has some redeeming factors (some more than others), the whole series seems poorly developed and could really have been something, if more time was spent on it, instead of churning out a book a month. Mongoose is even worse (sorry guys), i have everything upto and including the Quessential Fighter, and it all sits there on the shelf (not completely true, i like the golem book), unused. I do have to say that every book has some potential, but again it needed more development instead of churning out half a dozen books a month. I do understand that others do not agree with my opinions, but there are many more that do agree with me and hopefully we will be heard...Maybe i expect to much from D20 publishers, but WotC sets the standard IMHO, if publishers can't compete (with content quality, not presentation) they shouldn't be publishing. I've seen many good products by many different publishers, the whole WW crew (affiliates such as Necromancer Games, S&S, Malhakov, Arthous, etc.), FFG, AEG (Rokugan), and a lot of others. Why can they produce quality material and others cannot? Taste? Could be, we will see. But there will come a time when the consumer will say enough is enough and the entire D20 market will suffer for it...ps. If you felt left out, it's very difficult to get GR material around here, the main distributor (ps-games) doesn't carry it. I've only seen the Demon and the Devils book, and i like!</blockquote>

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