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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kettite" data-source="post: 6302366" data-attributes="member: 43548">Well, not necessarily.  TSR was a basement operation in the beginning, so their product was limited to the budget of a start-up amongst enthusiasts.  It may have cost them more for printing, etc. (in scale) because they could not order in bulk the way Hasbro/WotC can.  So Hasbro has ins with the artistic community and printers because of their size and cache - whereas Gygax et al. (in the early days of the mid 70s) were reliant on semi-professional artists to manage expense.The reaction in the gaming community if WotC had released the new edition as 3 small stapled pamphlets with limited black and white line art would be fantastic to witness though.</blockquote>