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I'm not sure everyone is working from your definition but I don't disagree with your assessment of GMing requiring a certain dedication. And anyone can go online to gaming communities and never buy a product or regularly play a game. Even with your definition of a casual gamer, you've got to...

So, just players and not GMs can be casual players in your estimation?

And before you know it, you realize you're essentially agreeing that EN World or any other online community of gamers is basically representative of gamers on the whole but with the added condition that they happen to also visit online communities.

That assumes that people who are part of messageboard communities are all (or even more likely to be) dedicated gamers, and that isn't true either. I know some folks like to number themselves as "insiders" while excluding others based on some criteria that includes themselves but it isn't the case.

It's a regular canard to suggest EN World (and even other online RPG/messageboard communities) are somehow more dedicated and it isn't fact nor true. There are plenty of dedicated fans of OGL offerings who never frequent messageboard of any kind but still purchase such products.

I see this hubris a lot on this forum from a handful of folks. It's bunk. I game with folks at various conventions, gamedays, and locally who have no knowledge or only passing knowledge of EN World and are every bit as dedicated to gaming as (more so in many cases than) folks on these boards...

I've answered you in the past on any number of occasions. You keep asking questions to which you have received answers as if they are new questions that haven't been answered, then repeating that the questions have not been answered. It's quite bizarre. Then again, I've gotten used to it. I...

Nail on the head. Thanks. It's pretty clear no amount of discussion will ever change some folks minds regarding their entrenched positions and opinions of anyone interested in an OGL for 5E, particularly if they want to legally publish material and sell it.

I'm not any worse off and I don't sell *5E* or PF products. If I turned what little efforts I make selling gaming stuff to some 5E material, I doubt it would be a huge impact on my own bottom line. I think the assumption on the part of some people is that if you wish to produce 5E material for...

True. They don't like the word "outsourcing" because of the bad connotations but, setting those bad connotations aside (which really have more to do with sending jobs "overseas" to lower labor costs, which is not the case here), it is essentially what is being done. I think one of the main...

Never say never, though it is unlikely.

Oh, I don't know. If I buy cattle, I certainly feed them whether I intend to sell them or eat them. I don't know the particulars of the deal that was struck to settle the lawsuit over the film rights but I'd imagine if it included giving Sweet Pea's guy a producer credit they have to move...

Total nonsense, indeed. Furthermore, the idea that the OGL does any harm to the D&D brand or does not help with WotC sales has been proven false over two editions. The only reason not to use it at this point or with this edition is if you never plan to use it again. It may well be that they...

Back when they were talking to publishers before coming out with the GSL for 4E, I asked flat out if the SRD 3.5 Revised was problematic or part of their decision making process and I was told that it was not. I suspect that the same would hold true for the SRD in compact book form. By that...

Thanks for the acknowledgment. That's your opinion and one not shared by everyone. It's an incredibly rude way to treat customers. However, you apparently have different standards. That seems disingenuous. If they got what they paid for, then there would be no need for complaints and no...

So, in your opinion, it's a small enough portion of the fanbase that it won't matter if they don't get refunded for what they didn't receive but it is a large enough number of people that refunding their money isn't going to happen. So, best of both worlds if you received the money but not good...

That's a big problem then. But if it is a "small percentage of fans," as you say, then I am sure they can manage it if needs be.

Well, that's worth something too. I'd still want some sort of refund for what wasn't delivered but I wouldn't expect the full $110 refund. My previous post was going off the post above that said they weren't given more than that received by the $40 players. I'd be more inclined to accept a...

Did folks who paid more receive this this year?

Naw. If I got no more than what the $40 people got, I'd want the $110 back. They'd be lucky if I didn't want the full $150 refunded. Giving a company money isn't a lottery. If they offer something for that money, even if some of it is just the promise of something of that value by the time...