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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 5255374" data-attributes="member: 3448">I expect there will be many authors who are happy to write for free.  I've organized authors to create adventures for cons, and people have produced numerous free adventures, many awesome, for me.  Back in the day, the RPGA offered both TSR games and non-TSR games, paying for the TSR games but not for the non-TSR games.  Both were well represented.  People wanted to play Paranoia, Call of Cthulhu, etc., so talented authors who wanted to write games in those worlds would write them without being paid.  And it's not like WotC paid that much for RPGA games anyway.  I've written some RPGA games, but when they stopped doing Classic style games, I stopped writing for them, because I was more interested in writing the games I wanted to write than in getting a small paycheck from WotC (as awesome as that small paycheck was from an ego perspective).That said, spinning LFR away from WotC may cause it to fall apart.  There won't be the same publicity, it won't be "official," it won't be canon... those will turn off some potential players.  On the other hand, eliminating the supervision from WotC and the need to stay canon may give them more freedom, may make the game better.  I really think we'll have to wait and see, and that the performance of the volunteers running the campaign will have as much or more to do with its success as the structural factors.  If they put out games that players want to play, on time and as promised, and remain a mainstay of convention organizing... it will do fine.  If they don't...</blockquote>

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