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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8043291" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!The industry continuing to fit a square peg into a round hole.The days of "everyone can get in on it and make money" is looooong over. The industry has settled, and for the most part, have a handful of "big players". Like Wizards of the Coast, Goodman Games, Game Workshop (mostly mini's, but a large cross over here I suspect), etc. are all pretty much THE companies and thus, THE rpg's available to the masses.I think the industry will fracture out a bit, much like it did with the advent of 4e D&D and the whole "OSR" movement that created. The cat is out of the bag now...so I think we'll see a lot more emphasis on "small publishers, just doing their thing and selling their limited runs and PDF's", right along side of $50 and $100 hardbacks from the "big guys". On that note...less "small publications" from those 'big guys', and more two-a-year $100 products from them. Bigger gamble, but they already have the recognition and fans, but big pay off for them as well. Everyone else? Expect $20 PDF rules with supplements/adventures coming out every month or two for an 'indie system', with a price around $5 to $10 bucks for PDF...with PoD's at 1.5 to 2.0 times that.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>