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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guilt Puppy" data-source="post: 830998" data-attributes="member: 6521">That's true and that's not true, depending on how you look at it... From the consumer's point of view, I can't have enough options for campaign settings (and follow-up material, well, that follows)... Of course, I'd only ever want to buy a handful, and then follow-up products to at most two of my favorites...So on the one hand, I can't say "there's no use to having yet-another campaign setting available," because that's always nice (so long as it's fairly unique)... On the other hand, it's pretty clear that the market can't support a lot of full campaign settings... The core setting book, yes, we could deal with a good number of those, but the follow-up products (which you need to spend money to publish) are not going to sell very well at all (because of, yes, saturation).New d20 systems have the same problem. I'm probably only going to run games in at most two systems at any given time... I might pick up one or two other systems, so that market's not too bad, but if I'm running a campaign, well, I want support material. And support material with such a limited market is simply not profitable.It's tough in general. E-publishing (including web enhancements) helps some, as it's generally cheaper to supply, but that also makes it an easier market to saturate.All the same, I want to publish something, damn it...</blockquote>