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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monte At Home" data-source="post: 1177568" data-attributes="member: 1335">Chris, you sound like a canny retailer and I've heard nothing but great things about your store. I do take a very small issue with one thing you said, though. WotC is not my (speaking as a d20 publisher) competition.1. First and most clearly, because I am not WotC's competition. If you've got one space left on your shelf and it's down to a WotC product and a Malhavoc product, I of course lose. Any d20 publisher does. No question. However, 2. WotC's wise enough to not flood the market with product, so that you don't have to make the choice between the WotC product and the Malhavoc product. WotC could easily put out enough products to fill your 12 spaces every month. In keeping with the lessons learned the hard way from strategies employed by TSR, however, WotC knows that that's a path to disaster in the long term. It's just far better business to sell 80,000 big hardcovers a month than 20,000 copies each of 4 separate smaller products. In addition,3. There's still enough people at WotC who understand the benefit they gain through the d20 license to not create strategies that run counter to that benefit. Every time I sell a Malhavoc product, WotC is benefited, not harmed. That's not a competitive relationship, it's a supportive one. (Likewise, my own business is guided by the successes and failures of WotC--if they do better, I do better).Of course, it's possible that someday #3 and #2 might become no longer true, which would be disaster for all d20 publishers because of #1. (It would be disaster for WotC, too, of course.)</blockquote>

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