Is the d20 market completely saturated?

[Emiricol]

Excuse me while I wax philosophic here, but as a player, and a sometimes DM, there's really not much left for me to purchase that would extensively add a huge amount of value to the game. I mean, there are tons of splat books, tons of monster books, plenty of modules, campaign settings, and a host of other great products out there, that already add a lot to my game.

Do others see as I do, that the d20 market is saturated with product, and the margins are continuing to shrink down as fans reach a point to where more books add less and less to their already diverse game?

Thoughts?

I keep thinking so, but then I realize I have way more left to buy than I have of money to do so with, so apparently, it isn't saturated in my case. Stupid car payment and mortgage interferes with my gaming

 

[fafhrd]

Personally, I suspect we're all doomed. WotC is releasing the MINIATURES HANDBOOK this Fall. That makes four sourcebooks dedicated to mass combat, and WotC is the big-boy on the block.

Har har har. This one cracks me up. Ahh hindsight.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Makes me wonder what I did with that d20 Ranger I bought...completely lost track of it.

 

[Nightfall]

Only when it comes to things Necromancer Games doesn't publish.

*cheers on ToH, Tsar and more...*

 

[CZHorse]

To each his own. You can buy the supplements if you like, and if it will work for your game or gaming style, or you can leave it on the shelf.

Personally, I like having the choice. I look at some game systems, that have very little in the way of publicated material, and say to myself that I am glad that I don't play that game.

 

[Psion]

Rassin frassin thread necromancy...

Well, in the last two (two!) years, I have shifted my buying habits to pdfs, and there are less print products, or so it seems.

But will the pendulum swing...

 

[Nightfall]

I think it will with Tome of Horrors 3, Psion.

But I'm biased.

 

[der_kluge]

Jeez, what is it with my threads and necromancy? Odd.

Anyway, to answer your question, Mark, to a degree, yes.

I think there are tons of products on the market, and in the past two years, we've seen some publishers fall out of the marketplace.

That said, I think there are gems out there. You just have to weed through the average stuff to find them.

 

[WayneLigon]

Do others see as I do, that the d20 market is saturated with product, and the margins are continuing to shrink down as fans reach a point to where more books add less and less to their already diverse game?

It might be saturated but I haven't bought much of the d20 stuff. I maybe own 25 things tops that are not WotC core books. I can look ahead at upcoming stuff and almost always find something that sounds nifty enough for me to get.

 

[Ghostwind]

Jeez, what is it with my threads and necromancy?

You're a necromancer magnet apparently.