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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zarrock God of Evil" data-source="post: 1810732" data-attributes="member: 2025">Well, I can only speak for the market in Denmark, but here's what I've heard from people in the business. My source is the owner of my FLGS, in Aarhus, the second largest city of Denmark. He owns two stores called Goblin Gate one in Aarhus (my FLgS) and one in Aalborg (the third largest city in the country). Apart from that he sells a great proportion of books via mail and really only has two direct competitors in this market (both located in Copenhagen). Him and his shops have been around almost since the beginning so he should have the proper perspective on things...When 3E first came out, he told me that he had never sold as many PHB as this time and that the d20 market was the beginning of the most profitable period for tabletop roleplaying games he had experienced. He told me a similar thing last year when 3.5 came out. (as an anecdote he told me that White Wolf today makes more money on its Sword and Sorcery division than on its WoD series according to his English distributors). After the apathy of the mid-nineties here, I definitely feel like we are living in a new Golden Age. The general acceptance of subcultures and "strange" hobbies has definitely increased tenfold too and that may have further benefitted the upswing. I cannot say for sure that this period is "better" than the 80s but at least some evidence does suggest it.-Zarrock</blockquote>