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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heap Thaumaturgist" data-source="post: 193598" data-attributes="member: 4516">I had a friend that played RIFTS a long long time ago, and another set of friends that owned alot of Palladium stuff.  I never actually got to play the game, though, due to ever-present time restrictions and moving away and whatnot.My question is, really, why would anybody want to deal with people like that?  I mean, honestly, when the president and the vice-president are husband and wife and they personally oversee the message boards on the website ... there's not really much in the way of a grand corporate machine at work in the background churning out impersonal decisions from on high.  And the fact that their legal position is so straight-walled, exact, and based around a basic misconception sounds to me like their "Legal SS" is more along the lines of one lawyer who they consult on a fairly regular basis as opposed to owning wholesale and keeping in the kennel to be loosed on net.geeks foolish enough to enter murky water.D20 is rapidly turning into MicroSoft, I admit ... and I'm wholeheartedly against the Great Satan of MicroSoft.  But, as all of my programming friends point out, the PC landscape as it exists today would not exist if it weren't for Microsoft and IBM making what more or less comes out to being a "standard".  RPGs aren't exactly a big-business sort of market in the first place.  Unlike MicroSatan, WotC isn't charging big money to lease their OS Code (D20 in this case) to software publishers.  Seems like a good idea to work together to solidify the market now and work to grow it into something greater.Ahhhh ... pointless randomness in the middle of the night.  I was bored and wanted to see my own wise tripe spewed across the screen for everybody else to see.  <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=":)" />  Didn't have to be much on topic.--HT</blockquote>

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