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<blockquote data-quote="Ghostwind" data-source="post: 302264" data-attributes="member: 3060">Another point has to do with name recognition.&nbsp; Any product put out by Wizards of the Coast will be more recognized by fans over that by a lesser known company.&nbsp; People, as a rule, tend to gravitate to the familiar.&nbsp; This gives Wizards an edge in the overall fan base.&nbsp; A consumer is more likely to buy or own one of their products over that belonging to something from, say Mystic Eye Games.&nbsp; This is nothing that can really be corrected unless a company has a huge advertsing budget and becomes very aggressive with it.&nbsp; Frankly, the smaller companies don't have that kind of money (yet).&nbsp; So while I feel the deck is stacked slightly in favor of Wizards, there is no way to compensate for this fairly without being unfair to Wizards.&nbsp; If something was developed that gave a spotlight on the &quot;other&quot; publishers that leveled the playing field, I'd be all for it.&nbsp; Perhaps the addition of a couple of categories such as &quot;Best Independent d20 Publisher&quot; or &quot;Best Use of the Open Gaming License&quot;.&nbsp; Just some random thoughts that immediately come to mind and probably not reasoned out well due to the early morning hour here.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ghostwind, post: 302264, member: 3060"] Another point has to do with name recognition. Any product put out by Wizards of the Coast will be more recognized by fans over that by a lesser known company. People, as a rule, tend to gravitate to the familiar. This gives Wizards an edge in the overall fan base. A consumer is more likely to buy or own one of their products over that belonging to something from, say Mystic Eye Games. This is nothing that can really be corrected unless a company has a huge advertsing budget and becomes very aggressive with it. Frankly, the smaller companies don't have that kind of money (yet). So while I feel the deck is stacked slightly in favor of Wizards, there is no way to compensate for this fairly without being unfair to Wizards. If something was developed that gave a spotlight on the "other" publishers that leveled the playing field, I'd be all for it. Perhaps the addition of a couple of categories such as "Best Independent d20 Publisher" or "Best Use of the Open Gaming License". Just some random thoughts that immediately come to mind and probably not reasoned out well due to the early morning hour here.;) [/QUOTE]

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