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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8739613" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>You buy products from the Third Parties that make stuff for DMs that WotC specifically decided not to do-- because they were more niche and that was the whole point of having 5E under the OGL, so WotC wouldn't have to produce a lot of low-selling niche product and could let smaller Third Party companies do it for them instead. And perhaps if certain product lines do well enough, then maybe WotC would come to the conclusion that what they thought was a niche product had a fanbase that was actually larger then they thought and thus decide to maybe make a version too.</p><p></p><p>The problem of course is too many players (at least here on EN World) have this hang up that they think anything done by 3P companies haven't been playtested enough and is going to suck. So they instead don't buy the products that might actually be useful to them and instead just wait and wait and wait for WotC to hopefully get around to doing it. But until it is proven to WotC that all these isolated DM-focused ideas actually have a substantial number of people wanting them... they have no reason to jump in to step on the work the 3PPs are doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8739613, member: 7006"] You buy products from the Third Parties that make stuff for DMs that WotC specifically decided not to do-- because they were more niche and that was the whole point of having 5E under the OGL, so WotC wouldn't have to produce a lot of low-selling niche product and could let smaller Third Party companies do it for them instead. And perhaps if certain product lines do well enough, then maybe WotC would come to the conclusion that what they thought was a niche product had a fanbase that was actually larger then they thought and thus decide to maybe make a version too. The problem of course is too many players (at least here on EN World) have this hang up that they think anything done by 3P companies haven't been playtested enough and is going to suck. So they instead don't buy the products that might actually be useful to them and instead just wait and wait and wait for WotC to hopefully get around to doing it. But until it is proven to WotC that all these isolated DM-focused ideas actually have a substantial number of people wanting them... they have no reason to jump in to step on the work the 3PPs are doing. [/QUOTE]
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