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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3013458" data-attributes="member: 158">Oh, unashamedly constrained, I'm sure. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> One might say that there's no use for old DOS software that won't run on your new XP machine, yet people have put the time and effort into DOSbox, an open source software just specifically to run those old games and apps where an XP machine falls down flat. To extend that analogy, what if the advent of DOSBox opened up this whole subcommunity of people who started selling DOS software again, because of its portability, its size, and its speed on older machines? Unlikely, but a similar idea holds.However, where a comparison diverges is that people are more likely to re-read a Victor Hugo novel, play a Grateful Dead record, or dig up a compilation of old TV shows than to dig out old DOS software and re-run it.Now, as for market size, there's no comparison in D&amp;D versus a market for, say, AD&amp;D. However, it IS comparable in size to a d20 Publisher; I have a feeling that Troll Lords is doing pretty well with Castles and Crusades, at least as well as any other successful d20 Publisher out there. If there's a market, there's a need for product, and that's what OSRIC is trying to tap into, with a tool they hope will be as useful for publishers as the OGL was for the third-party movement itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 3013458, member: 158"] Oh, unashamedly constrained, I'm sure. :) One might say that there's no use for old DOS software that won't run on your new XP machine, yet people have put the time and effort into DOSbox, an open source software just specifically to run those old games and apps where an XP machine falls down flat. To extend that analogy, what if the advent of DOSBox opened up this whole subcommunity of people who started selling DOS software again, because of its portability, its size, and its speed on older machines? Unlikely, but a similar idea holds. However, where a comparison diverges is that people are more likely to re-read a Victor Hugo novel, play a Grateful Dead record, or dig up a compilation of old TV shows than to dig out old DOS software and re-run it. Now, as for market size, there's no comparison in D&D versus a market for, say, AD&D. However, it IS comparable in size to a d20 Publisher; I have a feeling that Troll Lords is doing pretty well with Castles and Crusades, at least as well as any other successful d20 Publisher out there. If there's a market, there's a need for product, and that's what OSRIC is trying to tap into, with a tool they hope will be as useful for publishers as the OGL was for the third-party movement itself. [/QUOTE]

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