Plaag wrote:
1) Some companies have moved to 4e, others to other rule sets.  But to claim every company from the 3.x boon failed, I'd disagree.  product lines I'd even disagree as well (while I know some have discontinued these)

2) I've seen more an upswing in products, maybe less modules and more higher end products.  Even with the loss of Gygax's properties, the shift is not one of disarray but more focusing on what they can do.

3) While I'm all for Pathfinder/Paizo, I don't see them killing C&C.  Hell if anything it may help drive people away from 4e and back to anything 3.x related be it Pathfinder or C&C.

ShaneG.

1)  Not failed companies.  Failed RPG's.  I mean RPG's other than D&D. (I know many will take exception to the word "fail," but I'm just saying my opinion.)

2)  From my point of view, whenever I have encountered the Troll Lords in the past year, they have stumbled badly.  My recent experience with two of their newest PDF products was just plain baffling.  The printing and shipping fiasco with Castle Zagyg: The Upper Works....yikes.  Loss of the Gygax licenses...ouch.  Old products that have been on sale at dump-off prices literally for years and are still around...not good.  New game edition promised but not appearing...oh boy.  Having been involved in a failing business, and having dealt with other failing businesses, I know the signs.  Individually those are bad signs.  Taken together, they are bad indeed.

3)  It isn't Pathfinder versus C&C.  It's "established niche market" versus "shrinking niche market."  It is "huge sales with big new launch" versus "Umm, when is that coming out?"  Paizo's product has market advantages over Troll Lord's product, plain and simple.

Here I am, tearing down Troll Lords...not what I meant to do.     It's just the truth.