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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3925824" data-attributes="member: 22779">My 2 cp for whatever that's worth.The early 3rd party products for 3e had some gems but contained a huge number of stinkers.&nbsp; Absolute crap that got onto shelves that had no business being there.&nbsp; And that peed in the pool for everyone else.&nbsp; Stores won't stock new books from untried companies because they got burned so badly the last time around.&nbsp; And, I think WOTC is just going to avoid the whole mess completely this time because they don't need the attention that all those 3rd party products garnered the last time around either.&nbsp; D&amp;D was dying when 3e came out.&nbsp; By allowing people to put out as many D&amp;D books as they could, even if most were crap, they got the name out there as fast as possible and it basically became free advertising.&nbsp; You had all these new titles for this new game, which WOTC couldn't possibly publish in the same amount of time.This time around though, D&amp;D is pretty healthy by all accounts.&nbsp; They don't need to glut the shelves with 4e products.&nbsp; D&amp;D is stocked in B&amp;M shops from the little guys all the way up to the box stores.&nbsp; Amazon is a heck of a lot more pervasive in 2008 than it was in 1999.&nbsp; It doesn't make a whole lot of sense from a business standpoint to give all these other companies a leg up this time around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3925824, member: 22779"] My 2 cp for whatever that's worth. The early 3rd party products for 3e had some gems but contained a huge number of stinkers. Absolute crap that got onto shelves that had no business being there. And that peed in the pool for everyone else. Stores won't stock new books from untried companies because they got burned so badly the last time around. And, I think WOTC is just going to avoid the whole mess completely this time because they don't need the attention that all those 3rd party products garnered the last time around either. D&D was dying when 3e came out. By allowing people to put out as many D&D books as they could, even if most were crap, they got the name out there as fast as possible and it basically became free advertising. You had all these new titles for this new game, which WOTC couldn't possibly publish in the same amount of time. This time around though, D&D is pretty healthy by all accounts. They don't need to glut the shelves with 4e products. D&D is stocked in B&M shops from the little guys all the way up to the box stores. Amazon is a heck of a lot more pervasive in 2008 than it was in 1999. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense from a business standpoint to give all these other companies a leg up this time around. [/QUOTE]

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