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<blockquote data-quote="Shades of Green" data-source="post: 5413414" data-attributes="member: 3297"><p>I sometimes get the feeling that WotC, or any big-time RPG publisher, is a dinosaur made obsolete by evolution. Why? Because a lot of the old big-time publishers' power came from their ability to produce and market books in the old days when you could only get RPG books from brick-and-mortar stores, and the only way someone could market books was by large print runs, which required a huge budget.</p><p></p><p>But that isn't the case anymore.</p><p></p><p>We have POD, cheap PDF publishing, cheap small-scale publishing; ANYONE with some time on their hands can produce an RPG and market it online with minimal expenses, even tiny one-man, part-time companies. Why do I have to spend $60 (or more) on each edition of WotC D&D when I can download BFRPG or S&W in PDF format for free (and then print what I need locally) or get the hardcopy for $20 or so, if they fit my playing style better?</p><p></p><p>There is no need to write your own Fantasy Heartbreaker anymore; someone has probably written something very similar already and offers it for free or for cheap online.</p><p></p><p>Personally I don't care about WotC anymore. Not that I have anything against them in particular; the games they make (3.xE and 4E) simply don't fit my playing style. BFRPG and S&W do. And it's not out of nostalgia; BFRPG is a clone of BECMI and S&W is a clone of OD&D, and I have NEVER played BECMI or OD&D (I started with 2E); they just fit the way i want to play the game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shades of Green, post: 5413414, member: 3297"] I sometimes get the feeling that WotC, or any big-time RPG publisher, is a dinosaur made obsolete by evolution. Why? Because a lot of the old big-time publishers' power came from their ability to produce and market books in the old days when you could only get RPG books from brick-and-mortar stores, and the only way someone could market books was by large print runs, which required a huge budget. But that isn't the case anymore. We have POD, cheap PDF publishing, cheap small-scale publishing; ANYONE with some time on their hands can produce an RPG and market it online with minimal expenses, even tiny one-man, part-time companies. Why do I have to spend $60 (or more) on each edition of WotC D&D when I can download BFRPG or S&W in PDF format for free (and then print what I need locally) or get the hardcopy for $20 or so, if they fit my playing style better? There is no need to write your own Fantasy Heartbreaker anymore; someone has probably written something very similar already and offers it for free or for cheap online. Personally I don't care about WotC anymore. Not that I have anything against them in particular; the games they make (3.xE and 4E) simply don't fit my playing style. BFRPG and S&W do. And it's not out of nostalgia; BFRPG is a clone of BECMI and S&W is a clone of OD&D, and I have NEVER played BECMI or OD&D (I started with 2E); they just fit the way i want to play the game. [/QUOTE]
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