WotC conspiracy vs. EGG?

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EGG releases "The Slayer's Guide to Dragons".

WotC releases "Draconomicon".



EGG releases "The Slayer's Guide to Undead".

WotC releases "Liber Mortis: The Book of Undead".


EGG soon to release "Castle Zagyg".

WotC soon to release "Return to the Greyhawk Ruins"??????

 

[Mouseferatu]

MonkeyGod Enterprise releases "Frost and Fur"
WotC is releasing "Frostburn."

Mongoose releases "Complete *Race* Books"
WotC is releasing "Races of Stone," supposedly the first in a series of race books.

Goodman and FFG both release books on arial combat.
WotC includes airships in Eberron.

Mongoose, Sword & Sorcery, and a bunch of other folk release guides to the various classes.
WotC releases "Complete Warrior" and "Complete Divine," with two more to follow.

It's not Gygax, and it's not a conspiracy. It's the fact that D20 companies and WotC both want to print books that they think will sell, and sometimes the concepts overlap.

 

[wizardneedsfood]

It's the fact that D20 companies and WotC both want to print books that they think will sell, and sometimes the concepts overlap.

And that's what we call nail on the head.

 

[Henry]

Y'know how Hollywood sees a trend, and jumps on it? Like if fantasy movies and superhero movies are doing well, they come up with more of the same? It's kinda like that.

 

[MerricB]

EGG releases "The Slayer's Guide to Dragons".

WotC releases "Draconomicon".

Hmm - a almost two years later, and 3.5E compared to 3E rules.

EGG releases "The Slayer's Guide to Undead".

WotC releases "Liber Mortis: The Book of Undead".

Two years later, 3.5E vs. 3E

EGG soon to release "Castle Zagyg".

WotC soon to release "Return to the Greyhawk Ruins"??????

If only WotC would release more adventures!

Cheers!

 

[Ranger REG]

Find 100,000 customers willing to buy the next adventure from WotC, regardless of the actual premise. Then we can talk business.

 

[Dogbrain]

Why would a guy who HATES the OGL so VERY much and who considers it to ultimately be the total DOOM AND DESTRUCTION of D&D release OGL products? Is he a money-grubbing hypocrite?

In any case, it looks like WoTC is using the OGL to do free market research.

 

[GSHamster]

Why would a guy who HATES the OGL so VERY much and who considers it to ultimately be the total DOOM AND DESTRUCTION of D&D release OGL products? Is he a money-grubbing hypocrite?

It's not that Gygax hates it, it's more that he considers it a serious tactical mistake by WotC. If he was in charge of D&D, he would not have released the OGL, and stuck to the old model where only WotC produces D&D material. However, since he isn't with WotC, (and is a competitor, in fact) he isn't going to avoid taking advantage of that 'mistake'.

To be honest, I think that he was scarred by how he lost control of TSR, and his reaction is that he should have maintained a tighter grip over things. Thus WotC's deliberate loosening of control would seems almost insane to him.

But that's just random armchair psychology, and may or may not be true. It's just how I interpret his comments.

 

[Emirikol]

Mongoose releases Conan
WotC releases "Unearthed Arcana"

jh

 

[Emirikol]

If only WotC would release more adventures!
Cheers!

Yea... WotC too understands though that adventures don't sell that well anymore.

I'll stick with Dungeon (where Gary just put out a kind of big, if not redundant, scenario) :0

jh