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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DanMcS" data-source="post: 1147705" data-attributes="member: 6530">Nah, I got 'em all, I was just saying "couple" as an alternative to listing them by name and ISBN <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=":)" />Prices are apparently close to or at what the market will bear.  Maybe this industry /can't/ support lots of people full-time.  The market is small, production costs are high.  Heck, look at the old game companies- TSR pretty much went under, to be acquired by Wizards, which was supported by its cheap-to-produce, high-sales Magic and Pokemon cards.  Even so, they got gobbled up by Hasbro.  FASA is no more, WEG too, right?  White Wolf seems to be doing ok, but they've been in the mode of producing thick hardcovers even longer than Wizards, and they do d20 stuff and some licensed products as supplements.There are a lot of artistic endeavors that can't support a person, and that's sad, but it's not avoidable.  Quite a few musicians and actors and painters have day jobs.  Will RPG writing end up that way?Maybe internet publication will be a sea change in the market, big publishers like Malhavoc are already doing all their products as both PDF and dead tree.  Production costs are similar, since you still have to pay the writers and the artists and editors, but distribution/storage/printing is nil.  We'll see in a couple years I guess.</blockquote>

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