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<blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 5727420" data-attributes="member: 53082"><p>He's calling it post-D20 because 7-8 years ago a large percentage of the RPG products on store shelves had a little d20 logo on them and were not published by WOTC. That is no longer the case. I agree that some of the larger systems still use d20's but the cloud of smaller games around them are not as uniform as they used to be. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The popularity and number of those games has changed. While d20 was booming it squeezed out material for non-d20 games. We used to see articles and posts from publishers that distributors weren't interested in anything that was not d20. Remember Deadlands d20? Traveller d20? Babylon 5 d20? Games like those popped up then went away along with a whole lotta supplements for the "d20 system". That was a pretty big change when it came in, and another one when it died out.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I wouldn't slag the effort - these are almost all small private companies that don't have to report to shareholders or anyone else so it's going to have a lot of anecdotal stuff, but I always like to see a new take on it. Heck even the ICV2 operation that's decreeing these ups and downs has some super-secret method they use for calculating their numbers - it's not just a ranking of sales figures, it's based on interviews etc. I'm not sure how much truly objective data is out there to be had.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lord_Blacksteel, post: 5727420, member: 53082"] He's calling it post-D20 because 7-8 years ago a large percentage of the RPG products on store shelves had a little d20 logo on them and were not published by WOTC. That is no longer the case. I agree that some of the larger systems still use d20's but the cloud of smaller games around them are not as uniform as they used to be. The popularity and number of those games has changed. While d20 was booming it squeezed out material for non-d20 games. We used to see articles and posts from publishers that distributors weren't interested in anything that was not d20. Remember Deadlands d20? Traveller d20? Babylon 5 d20? Games like those popped up then went away along with a whole lotta supplements for the "d20 system". That was a pretty big change when it came in, and another one when it died out. I wouldn't slag the effort - these are almost all small private companies that don't have to report to shareholders or anyone else so it's going to have a lot of anecdotal stuff, but I always like to see a new take on it. Heck even the ICV2 operation that's decreeing these ups and downs has some super-secret method they use for calculating their numbers - it's not just a ranking of sales figures, it's based on interviews etc. I'm not sure how much truly objective data is out there to be had. [/QUOTE]
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