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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Axegrrl" data-source="post: 1673527" data-attributes="member: 17584">Something occurs to me regarding sales of adventures/settings/etc vs. rules books. Take a good long look at the forums under RPG Forums. We've got:General DiscussionD&D RulesHouse RulesD20 Modern, D20 System, & OGL GamesRogues GalleryD20 & Open Gaming PublishersOf note: there are no setting-specific forums, but there are two that are rules-specific. Now look at the topics in General RPG Discussion. As I type this, the first page of topics has two, maybe three threads that are setting-specific. (The d20/other forum seems to have the most setting-specific threads, but at a guess, that's because of the higher percentage of d20/other game books that are setting-specific vs. d20/d&d.)Some perceptions I've run across: For setting, what the GM says, goes. If the GM can't come up with a decent setting -- either by using a published setting, mixing & matching from multiple published settings, or creating it from scratch -- someone else should be GMing.Rules that players come up with are suspect.Rules that have been published are potentially viable.One GM quote I've heard, regarding rules: "If it's in print, you can use it." That went for classes, races, feats, whatever.The same GM disallowed what seemed to me to be a somewhat-underpowered prestige class, because it had been created by a player. The player (not me, btw) had deliberately underpowered it in hopes of getting it approved.So yeah, people are more likely to buy rules-related materials than settings.</blockquote>

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