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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eyebeams" data-source="post: 2786600" data-attributes="member: 9225">Actually, they don't sell that well compared to the PHB. That makes it small potatoes by WotC standards and OGL rationale. WotC bothering with them means that they are accepting humbler margins instead of expecting the OGL to sell PHBs for them.As for Mongoose, they're also small potatoes compared to the PHB. The point of the OGL was to let companies like Mongoose take care of the small potatoes, while WotC would sell PHBS and other cores.No. WotC originally sold FR with the idea that there'd be a big, broad-selling core and maybe some equally broad supplements (like magic and monsters). After that, it's treadmill. It looks to me that WotC is willing to accept diminishing returns in inverse proportion to how well something sells, probably by tweaking print run sizes. That's why you can have a supplement for D20 Future which is a supplement for D20 Modern. D&D is less tolerant of such small potatoes. No. Their plan was to do little books of specialized subjects, at best, like Sword and Fist. They knew competing HCs were coming the moment Creature Collection 1 came out, if not sooner.The fact is, WotC folks *said*, on multiple occasions, what their plan would be. They said they were in the business of selling PHBs first and wanted to leave anything beyond core support (and legacy material like books that existed in 1e) to minimal house treatment. This was the rationale for the brown softcover series that everybody hated.It didn't work. The argument that the OGL would take care of it for them was bogus. They had to get their hands dirty hawking product that the company line used to argue was beneath them, and that's the long and short of it.</blockquote>

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