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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 1144879" data-attributes="member: 4275">You are mistaking other games for D&D. Bad theory. D&D is a MUCH different animal than A) any 3rd party game, or B) any licensed game.Licensed games do the majority of their business in the first book. This is why WOTC made one Call of Cthulhu book and one Wheel of Time book. This is also why SG-1 and Babylon 5 made their first books so inclusive.Also- they probably not only paid 100k for the license up front, but they likely also pay a % of the book's profits.Cars are a different business model unfortunately.You're comparing new car dealerships trading out options to 3rd party game companies. We're like the local mom and pop car lots in a dirt lot on the corner. We have a selection of cars that are bought or not as is.Mongoose and AEG are big companies *by the standards* of 3rd party game companies. But to compare them to WOTC (as in the PHB/DMG analogy) is comparing apples to oranges.Even SJ Games is a bad comparison. They are much bigger than most 3rd party companies, GURPS is a product line VERY well established over a long period of time.Just a perspective from a freelancer in the industry. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The cost of those books are high. But if you look at the books pushing the 50 dollar envelope, they tend to be licensed products. This isnt a coincidence. Chuck</blockquote>

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