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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 6279166" data-attributes="member: 49017"><p>Another type of product that's "perishable" in that sense is exemplified by the Poor Wizard's Almanac that TSR put out for Mystara. Some world description, though not a huge amount compared to what you could get from other sources, but the most significant part was the events of the year section. GDW of course did something similar in a different way with the TNS news in their various magazines. Selling metaplot in this way is somewhat different from the approach in the White Wolf games, since the almanacs in particular are bought mostly for the plot rather than for other background information with some plot included. Whether that could work now is another question, since it would be perfectly possible to deliver the same sort of content online. Indeed, SJG have done that with their version of Traveller and their TNS news items. Compared to the mix of supplements, novels, and new versions of supplements that settings like FR have delivered, this would seem to have some value. Although for the company, turning that value into money is going to be a problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>