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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reapersaurus" data-source="post: 160012" data-attributes="member: 1194">Re: Re: I would just like to add this....This brought me out of lurking.I have been waiting for months to get a peek at Kenny's work on dinosaurs in GF 1.Unfortunately, this nice, niche content is locked up with an albatross of content from various other d20 publishers.I'm interested in a small number of things as an adult gamer: not the whole dang d20 industry!I would have to be SO involved in gaming, (to be that interested in d20 stuff that I'd pay $20 for an independant smattering of stuff) that I couldn't have a full-time job.And here's my consumer opinion:books are too overpriced.I've seen Arms & Armor...  it wouldn't be worth more than $14 by any stretch.Apparently there's enough consumers to support those kinds of books, but when it comes to small bits of content like Gaming Frontiers seems to contain, I don't think you can compare it to an entire deeply-researched setting or rules book.Part of the reason why people buy those items is to get the whole campaign info together.With GF, it seems the material is a much more cobbled-together approach.This reduces the value of the book taken as a whole.And finally, as a totally personal opinion, I'm wondering why d20 publishers seem to value their efforts so much.Seriously....  why would a tiny rules supplement on dinosaurs (which I'm nuts about) be worth charging someone lots of money for?I can make up my own dinosaur stats, etc.I can modify other people's work on dinosaurs that they share.I can take people's work that they freely share from House Rules, and places like that.And that's just the one area I'm interested in - could you not say the same about many of the other parts included in GF?no offense, I really just don';t see how d20 publishers are doing that much better work than I have read on free message boards.</blockquote>

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