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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 5606650" data-attributes="member: 28487">AD&D was running of the back of an expanding market. D&D was fad or a mini fad at least. Its expansion was quite dramatic.2e probably came out after that fad expansion peaked and produced dramatically more books. Aside from "realism" issues the wall of books was another reason I did not buy into D&D at the time. I do nto think this model is viable, unless you are selling something else.Paizo could probably get away with it for Pathfinder as they were originally relying on subscription sales of AP's initially. So as long as they did not hire too many permenent staffers for Pathfinder development tyey could support Pathfinder on a pretty low (by WoTC standards) book output. WoTC have traditionally made its money by churning out tons of books. To support the couple of books a year model they need to be selling an subscription service compelling enough to gain subscribers that does not add a ton of crunch to the game. They are nowhere near that yet.Even on their online subscription service they are stil ladding tons of crunch. Gleemax may have been an attempt to create such a service but its is not clear that WoTC had a clear strategic vision of what Gleemax was supposed to be. On the other hand a VTT with a module mart that was expanded to support past editions could do the trick, for instance.</blockquote>