Re: [Re: Speed of Age in the Astral]

In a message dated 6/1/00 2:35:31 PM Central Daylight Time,
didymus@??????.?????.net writes:

> I like PS; my wife loves it. We alternate running SJ and PS on alternate
>  weeks, in fact. I think the reason it wasn't profitable, though, wasn't a
>  matter of popularity, but a matter of production value. The overhead on
>  gaming supplements is very narrow, and books with high production values
>  (color art, glossy paper, lots of pull-outs) tend to cut the profit even
>  smaller. Witness the original Feng Shui core book from Daedalus: Every
>  page was high-gloss and a great number of them were in color. From what I
>  understand, the production costs were so high, the company very nearly
>  /lost/ money on every book they sold.
>
>  It's a paradox. A better-looking game will sell you more copies, but a
>  cheaper-produced book will make you more money.
>

WotC should follow the suit white wolf took with Changeling: the Dreaming.
The profits were low on full color books, so they went to black and white,
and as of late I havent even been able to get ahold of various changeling
books its so bloody popular.

SSK
(As for SJ and Planescape Im doing both at the same time, though I think Ive
mentioned that a couple thousand times on the list already ^_^*)