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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bilharzia" data-source="post: 8476701" data-attributes="member: 6970322">I know nothing about SawStop, but I take your point. But don't books such as "Neverland" counter that in any case? - ie. publishers are already savvy to a more utility-based approach, and are releasing books like this - just not very many - and not from the traditional RPG publishers. Notice in this case although the author is not the publisher directly, it is the author's project, he wrote and illustrated the whole thing, with a bit of help.Purely anecdotally (but not entirely forum sourced) I would say at least 90% of rpg purchases are not played. I have seen a reference to this in the past, but I am afraid I do not have the source saved. RPG companies have discovered there is a market for quite lavishly produced rpg supplements, see Kickstarter - lots of writing, colour, magazine style layout, colour illustrations and paintings. Whether or not they are used in a game is incidental.This means that the question of utility is low, since only a small portion of the buyers will use the publication live in a game. Compounding this, if you go for a more concise, useful style, it is actually less desirable to the 'readers' because utility-style is not that enjoyable to read as prose. Whereas the wall-of-text style is usually quite enjoyable to read, it is just horrible to use when you are running a game.</blockquote>