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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5332205" data-attributes="member: 996">Battletech.In 1984, FASA released an innocuous little board game called BattleDroids, that was quickly re-named Battletech (because Lucas figured they owned 'droids).  The premise of the game was, "hey we can pick up the rights to a few illustrations of Anime robots, lets make a game outta that."  It exploded.  I had one friend who got into it, and by 1987 he had six feet of bookshelf devoted to suplements.  It was a pace of publication the broader gaming industry had never seen before.  It became the standard everyone apired to.White Wolf was the first RPG-focused company to succeed, like Battletech, by focsusing on setting over 'crunch,' managing a book-a-month publishing pace as it slowly detailed its 'World of Darkness.'  Once the 'World of Darkness' expanded beyond the original Vampire, it became a book per month per line.  TSR tried to immitate that success in the 90s, and, with the name recognition of D&D, and a flurry of settings (Darksun, Spelljammer, Planescape, etc), succeeded.D&D may have changed hands, and WW may or may not be doing so well these days (I've stopped paying attention), and the focus (for D&D at least) may have shifted from fluff to crunch, but the standard set by Battletech remains.  Sell /lots/ of books very fast or your game has failed.Publish or perish.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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