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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2641896" data-attributes="member: 7883">Problem is, that in the absence of these 3rd party companies displaying actual ingenuity, we wouldn't have Midnight or Oathbound, or Hamunaptra, or Black Company, or Iron Kingdoms, or tonnes of other really cool settings or products.  WotC has already said they don't want to create settings anymore, because it splits the fan base.  And I (and many other players or DMs) don't find the settings they are currently publishing innovative/interesting enough.I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.  The WotC of 2005 is not the TSR of 1997.  There are good sides and bad sides to that.  One of the bad sides is that they're less willing to take chances, and do something really different.I don't know about you, but I *want* to see this innovation coming from the 3rd party companies, because I've come to realize over the last few years that I can no longer expect it from WotC.And at the end of the day, I have a full-time job, a dog, a fiance, and a shortage of time to come up with much of that cool stuff myself, so I depend on published products in order to keep running my game.Banshee</blockquote>