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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1835679" data-attributes="member: 813">True reference books are printed again and again, year after year with slight revisions between printing. RPGs are disposable from the publisher's point of view. How many 2nd printing books (printed after TSR went out of business) do you have? Yeah, the core books are reference books that get reprinted occasionally. But once the last Player's Guide to Faerun leaves the waarehouse, I would be shocked if they reprinted it. No, like a newspaper or magazine, most RPGs get a single print run and that's it. They only get printed on heavier paper or hardcover because durability is a quality their customers regard highly enough to justify spending money on it to increase sales.Substitute design guru for editor in my other argument and you have the same situation.I don't want it to look like I'm knocking a competitor (and that's like a pawn shop comparing itself to Wal*Mart). But the brain drain they suffered with those well documented two layoffs (and a few noticable "rats fleeing a sinking ship" (and I'm not calling them rats just to be explicit here)) contributes to this. It's not that the remaining designers aren't capable. They just have fewer people to bounce ideas off of and those they can bounce ideas off of were not the people who designed 3.0. By having smaller staff the staff suffers from lack of diversity of idea. They also have fewer people who "know" the product who can say stuff like "you should read how THAT very idea you think is original was done in Tome and Blood and see what feedback we got about it."</blockquote>

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