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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1239691" data-attributes="member: 172">Hmmm. Maybe at the height of the d20 elation, but the trend isn't that unusual.In pre-d20/3e days, I heard that WotC/TSR would not print a new book unless the brand manager could promise them 5000 copies would sell. Many reprints never happened because of it (I understand that a reprint of the Complete Necromancer's Handbook was often requested by fans, but they wouldn't do it.)This essential market condition hasn't changed that much except for one thing: companies exist that can fill this smaller market segment. Indeed, filling these smaller print run product was one of the major justifications of the d20 license and OGL: because a large company like WotC was not interested in fielding small print run items. Effectively, this was a way of outsourcing small print run items that, indeed, fans want.I'm surprised that anyone would be taken aback that third party products sell less than 5000 copies. That is the market that the d20 STL and OGL was created to support.</blockquote>