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<blockquote data-quote="PaizoCEO" data-source="post: 5104141" data-attributes="member: 26115">Actually, this one isn't true.&nbsp; As the person responsible for figuring out what happened at TSR that caused them to slip to a point where Wizards could buy them, the fiction line was actually a shining good point.&nbsp; The main reasons were really crappy printing prices and Cost of Goods management in general, and breaking up the customer base into smaller and smaller niches so instead of D&amp;D players you had Forgotten Realms players, Greyhawk players, Dark Sun players, Ravenloft players, etc.&nbsp; And each of those groups wouldn't buy the products made for one of the other groups.&nbsp; There were returns that added to that, but the most damaging returns weren't fiction but game related.&nbsp; And there was too much owed to the printers, but that wasn't because of the fiction line.&nbsp; Again, the costs of RPG products were significantly higher than the fiction ones.&nbsp; -Lisa</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PaizoCEO, post: 5104141, member: 26115"] Actually, this one isn't true. As the person responsible for figuring out what happened at TSR that caused them to slip to a point where Wizards could buy them, the fiction line was actually a shining good point. The main reasons were really crappy printing prices and Cost of Goods management in general, and breaking up the customer base into smaller and smaller niches so instead of D&D players you had Forgotten Realms players, Greyhawk players, Dark Sun players, Ravenloft players, etc. And each of those groups wouldn't buy the products made for one of the other groups. There were returns that added to that, but the most damaging returns weren't fiction but game related. And there was too much owed to the printers, but that wasn't because of the fiction line. Again, the costs of RPG products were significantly higher than the fiction ones. -Lisa [/QUOTE]

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