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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnNephew" data-source="post: 492526" data-attributes="member: 2171">I think you're making an unwarranted leap to say that James Wallis is blaming D20 for his decision to wind down his business.  I've known James for about a decade, and I know he's been expecting to shut Hogshead down for a long while.  It has nothing to do with D20 (at least never that I can recall in numerous conversations on the topic), and more to do with the fact that even a company doing as stellar a job as Hogshead has, putting out some of the finest and most innovative games this industry has seen, has a really tough time making ends meet.  I would bet that James hasn't taken home much of a personal paycheck in all the years he's run Hogshead.  Like John Tynes (who has no fear or blame of D20 either, since he wrote one of the two first D20 System licensed products ever published), I think he's decided it's time to move on from this hardscrabble existence.Nobilis may have wound up positioned as a "non-D20 game," but that's just smart marketing -- appealing to people who are explicitly looking for something that isn't D20.  It's also sold more copies than most D20 books released this year, I'll bet (from the sales numbers I've heard whispered).  WFRP also has remained a solid seller, as far as I can tell -- but it's burdened by licensing fees and approval requirements and the like.(Now James can prove me wrong by saying, in his OgreCave interview later today, "It's all D20's fault!"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

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