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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6175806" data-attributes="member: 1">That's really not what that phrase means.  On the whole, adventures don't sell -- by definition their market a subset of any core rules.  That's what that phrase means. Paizo has managed to find a way - by developing a cool subscription-based, repeating AP model - which includes a higher percentage of that core rules market than is traditional, and is just the right size that that can be profitable (an undoubtedly one of the reasons why they wish to remain that the size they are - they could easily be bigger).  That speaks to their innovative approach and their ability to listen to their customers (again, an advantage of their size).  It does not mean that other stuff is "crappy".  (Some other stuff may well be crappy, but plenty of it - especially in the "TSR" era which was characterized by the whole diminishing sales on ever-specialized products - was really, really good; yet didn't sell enough). Paizo comes across to me like WotC over a decade ago.  And they're also in a position where they could see everything WotC did and allow that to help inform their decisions, so they won't travel down the same route that WotC did.</blockquote>