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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reflected_Shadows" data-source="post: 6848412" data-attributes="member: 6828291">This is kinda a situation of "too many chiefs and not enough indians", if you will. (I will try to find a better method to express the idea).Everyone has 5-6 campaign worlds, classes and monsters and wants to publish their own stuff and very few people want to buy those works. The market is small, especially in any area, and when you find someone who plays, they might say something like "Me? Oh, I just LARP" or "I only play Rifts." One area I lived in, there were about 60 people who played other game systems that hated D&D. It was hard to find someone to play a few games. So, what is a book worth that I don't have an active use for?Also, does a book force me to use your gameworld, or does it just fit like a puzzle piece into any? I find a lot of products take good advice and link all of their classes, races, spells and feats together but this also creates a tight system and many people prefer a looser system they can port in to whatever system they are using.I will end by saying anything homebrew will carry the mark of being made by "some guy on the internet" and lack credulity to most people. Especially if there is an official product for it. The first time someone makes a popular book about Hobbits, Ents, Orcs and Wizards, everything to come after is just a cheap copycat and the first guy did it better every time. This is a problem of audience perception of cannon and anthology, and it is a problem of genuine authenticity. When twilight came out - many other crappy, cheap McVampire infestation occurred. In many cases, people said "Twilight did it first!" even when they were wrong (Vampire Diaries came out before Twilight), and even then, I used to say "Vampires don't sparkle. Bram Stoker's Dracula would gobble all those sparkling McVampires for brunch. Lestat from the vampire chronicles and interview with a vampire would totally screw their whole world up." That doesn't mean we shouldn't try - but we should have realistic expectations about how the game is played, who the prime players are, and what the consequences of being a functional nobody are - and by all means, try to break out. I only know about Kaminanda music because he took the risk of competing in an ultra-niche genre of a market where more people steal than buy. So good luck to all of us! We will need it.</blockquote>

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