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<blockquote data-quote="PHATsakk43" data-source="post: 9602963" data-attributes="member: 7041071">It would be interesting to see what the cost breakdown was of this stuff.Like, how much was development, how much was art &amp; layout, and how much was production.I wonder if Ben Riggs or someone has enough data to delve this deeply into the company finances. From my understanding, a lot of the stuff was being done by freelancers at this point and only development and editing was in-house.Like, there could be a world where all this stuff was done, it just wasn’t published in boxed sets that were more expensive than the sale price.In a way, TSR had sorta worked in this model. UA was, in a lot of ways the first example where mostly pre-published articles in TSR periodicals were compiled and published in a single text. Several 2E publications were similar—especially in the Forgotten Realms line, where books and boxed sets were edited compilations of Greenwood articles in Dragon and Polyhedron. Even in 5E the bulk of stuff in the core game expansions are from online UA or pulled from various adventures.Again, I’m just playing the “what if” game of could TSR held out with a leaner team and far smaller publication schedule.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PHATsakk43, post: 9602963, member: 7041071"] It would be interesting to see what the cost breakdown was of this stuff. Like, how much was development, how much was art & layout, and how much was production. I wonder if Ben Riggs or someone has enough data to delve this deeply into the company finances. From my understanding, a lot of the stuff was being done by freelancers at this point and only development and editing was in-house. Like, there could be a world where all this stuff was done, it just wasn’t published in boxed sets that were more expensive than the sale price. In a way, TSR had sorta worked in this model. UA was, in a lot of ways the first example where mostly pre-published articles in TSR periodicals were compiled and published in a single text. Several 2E publications were similar—especially in the Forgotten Realms line, where books and boxed sets were edited compilations of Greenwood articles in Dragon and Polyhedron. Even in 5E the bulk of stuff in the core game expansions are from online UA or pulled from various adventures. Again, I’m just playing the “what if” game of could TSR held out with a leaner team and far smaller publication schedule. [/QUOTE]

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