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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 2641305" data-attributes="member: 4275">Losing in the end? Because they wont give away something they can still sell?How do you balance your check book?Give away the 50 dollar core rule book so you can sell the 20 dollar supplement? Under what business model does that make sense?No publishers are in the same boat as consumers. If I want to mine a competitors' book for OGC they aren't going to give it to me free anymore than I'd give it to you so you can pass it out to your gaming group. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />WOTC can just do things the rest of us cant.That's not a cop out, its really not.Look at it this way: other companies might use more of WOTC's tactics and strategies if they could sell 100,000 (or even 10,000) of a core rule book instead of the 1,000-3,000 most RPG books sell these days. A simple calculator will tell you that if WOTC loses a sale due to a SRD being present that its way less a percentage of the print run than if RPGObjects loses that same one sale. Chuck</blockquote>