To Many Publishers?

[Cecil]

SGT

Welcome home, and thanks for your service (but sorry, the MPs don't lead the way..... )


This has been a rather entertaining thread. Reminds me somewhat of a line my english prof once used. "Reading through these is like panning for gold at the end of a sewage pipe. You have to go through a lot of s%@# before you find a gold nugget"

(I didn't find # or @ very hard to pronounce).

 

[Ashy]

Make me the 19th Spelljammer fan.

Color me #20 - it transfers far too well into PS not to like!

I don't complain that there are 15 brands of toilet paper at my local supermarket. I pick one and go with it. People don't complain about the glut of magazines at the newstand, that I know of: I guar-an-tee there are FAR more magazine offerings than d20 publications at the newstand! I only buy three or four magazines out of the thousands available, and leave the rest alone - they don't interest me. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Amen, brother! Being a fan, freelancer and a small publisher, I have an unusual perspective on this: while I can acknowledge that there is a LOT of stuff out there and that maybe somethings would have been better with a little publisher cross-polination since the beginning, I can also see the desire to get a product to market and capture some of those dollars (because - hey, let's face it - just about everybody wants to get paid!). However, I have decided to take a different approach with Enkwell - I am trying to produce products that will fill what I percieve as gaps in the mail of D20 - and I hope that the customers out there see things the way I do (obviously). On the other hand, as a fan and freelancer, it is kinda fun looking at the width and breadth of the industry and thinking - "WOW - there is so much cool stuff to be done/bought!"

But basically, when it comes down to opening the wallet, you have to decide (just like with anything else) if "X product" is worth your hard-earned dollar. Just because it is on the shelf and has a nice, shiny cover does not mean you HAVE to take it home, no matter what your reptilian brain says!

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Not me- I think publishers should stop putting out so much garbage and worry about how clear their OGC designations are.

This is not the proper forum for that discussion. Move it over to the OGF listserv.

 

[Voadam]

never too many monsters

I like walking into a game and discovering new magic and new creatures. As a player I've gone against templated wights from the Penumbra Bestiary, a Thodol, blood ooze, and ash maiden from Minion's Rebirth, a mooncalf from WotC's Heart of Nightfang spire, nonstandard werewolves from the Banewarrens, and others. I have read a lot of d20 monster books (MM, Denizens of Darkness, Minions Rebirth, Jade Dragons and Hungry Ghosts, Book of Templates, Penumbra Bestiary, Gaming Frontiers Monsters, and more) but there are a ton I still haven't seen (Monsternomicon, Liber Bestarius, Monsters of Norrath, Creatures of Rokugan, Encyclopedia of Angels, Monster Manual II and Fiend Folio and more) that can provide surprises for someone who has played D&D for over two decades and professionally reviews d20 products.

 

[Bendris Noulg]

Well, crap is clearly in the eye of the beholder. I've stated before that I'm one of the 16, no, make it 17 fans of the Spelljammer setting.

No, you'd be 18, bub... Now step back.

 

[Mark]

...there are 15 brands of toilet paper at my local supermarket.

...at least someone is pro-actively addressing the "crap" problem...

 

[JoeGKushner]

So, should this be addressed by legislation, lawsuit, or Constitutional amendment?

It will be addressed the same way many things are in America and other countries. The open market. The product with the hype, staying power and followers, will continue to rise while others will merge, fall to the wayside or go electronic only.

 

[Dogbrain]

It will be addressed the same way many things are in America and other countries. The open market. The product with the hype, staying power and followers, will continue to rise while others will merge, fall to the wayside or go electronic only.

But isn't this a crisis that will bring down civilization unless measures as extreme as the New Deal are taken?