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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 2870404" data-attributes="member: 8158">I guess the difference between today and twenty-fire years ago is that today there's a general consensus that the entity known as the independently-owned, disenfranchised mom-n'-pop store selling niche goods for humble profits is no longer viable. I'm not sure why exactly.I guess it's linked to an even greater mystery. Somewhere in the 1990's it was decided in the comics industry that it was no longer viable to produce comics cheaply on low-grade paper in a four-color format. Everything now has to be published on glossy paper with 32-billion color interiors. You pay four bucks for a story that you can read in ten minutes. And not only do people in the industry bemoan the decline of sales, but nobody even contemplates going back to the old ways. The same thinking has infected D&D. I have copies of softbound TSR D&D books and issues of Dragon and Dungeon magazine from the late 1980's that I still enjoy reading; I'm not sure that I'm any more eager to part with my cash to buy them now than I was then. If Paizo could save me a buck by producing their mags more cheaply, I'd probably be more likely to purchase them, not less. There's nothing wrong with black-and-white art. In some ways, it's more evocative.</blockquote>