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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9428805" data-attributes="member: 54840">What does that trust look like? For me, the only answer is a series of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_pact" target="_blank">Ulysses pacts</a> – things they do that they can't later take back. I don't think its reasonable for them to only build trust with things that don't help them as a company. That's not their charge. They're not the government. They're not a not-for-profit. Why would we treat them like they are? We buy (or rent) products from them.But when they do things that help the RPG community and cannot be taken back, I think that's worthy of note:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Publishing physical core books.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Putting the 5.1 and 5.2 SRDs into the CC along with multiple languages.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Putting out educational resources in PDF (so they can be downloaded and kept).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Supporting downloadable digital platforms like Foundry.</li> </ul>The only other big one I have on my list is them releasing their products in PDF. This is a big Ulysses pact. They do it for all their non-5e materials, which is great. We have 50 years of D&D products we can store on our hard drive and thumb drive. There's Print on Demand versions too, which we can order and keep on our shelves for a hundred years.I don't think we should pressure them to only do things that benefit us and not them. That doesn't make sense to ask of a commercial publicly traded company. But pushing them to give us things we can keep forever. Things that keep the game open forever. That's a big benefit. Then we don't need to trust them – because we can't.</blockquote>

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