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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sodalis" data-source="post: 236936" data-attributes="member: 1791">I dont see what the commotion is all about...OK_ so you sent in an idea that you have been wrkin on for ten years- and grnated it wins the next four rounds- you have the option of declining the money and taking your ideas back.  But know that anything after this stage (afetr submiting 10 page) would be foolish.  if they really like your idea, and you decide after submitting the 10 page that you want it back- well, they have all the information they need from you- the general history and settingo f your world.  With that, they can delve into their own creativity (or lease it out) and create a world that is similar to yours- and being different than yours in certain critical ways, they owe you nothing.As for those that did send in their proposals, Good for you- you are thinking that in a cpaitalist world, an idea is worth a thousand products.  A man can work his whole life and make a million little things to sell- and still be poor. but a man with one good idea can make it rich and live comfortably for the rest of his life.I personally did not submit because i prefer to have a world that i can manipulate- and not have anyone else say how it is.Like the guy who cretaed Faerun (if there is such a guy).  He can no longer go into the maps and say, i want a mountain chain to be here cause some Hill giants would be cool- terrorizing this town... his players would (as per many compaints about Faerun) say"that's not how it is... In all th ebooks I have read- there is no mountain chain there!!"But if nayone wanted to take the campaign (after playing a few games with me) and submit it with their own creative spin on it- be my guest.  I can't prove that it was my idea.  heck- I am pretty sure there are a million guys out there that has already thought of a riverfront kingdom with a mountain just of on th eother side where dragons live... to claim exclusive ownership of this is just lame...and to say that you are selling your soul because you think that they will hack your campaign up is just odd- is the only word I can come up with.  You work all your life for a break- and this is it.  why not take it?but I do understand what you are saying. that is a reason why i did not wan to submit mine (not  claiming superiority or anything) I just want to have the right and ability to change my world as I see fit...</blockquote>

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