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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7698008" data-attributes="member: 37579">Yeah... I mean, six months ago they were ahead of the pack, with both sharing their content via the PRD and the Community Use Policy that lets its fans use their world and make non-commercial products for Golarion. Then WotC threw everyone a curve-ball by allowing anyone to make D&D products, without knowledge of the OGL, and the ability to write Realms (and then Ravenloft) content for money. That's a game changer.You can still do all that on the Paizo site, but making a product under the OGL is tricky. There's some legal catches that can snag an unware micro-publisher. And Paizo has no automated process: they individually approval all products to see if they meet quality standards. Even becoming a publisher means sending an email and contacting an individual (the very cool Liz Courts at: consignments @ paizo.com). It's not quite the same thing as the DMs Guild or Drive Thur RPG where you can go from having a PDF to being a publisher selling a PDF in 15 minutes; with Paizo you send a request, they reply (within a day or so) with the forms, which you fill out and send back, and then they reply with an approval or not. Then someone manually sets-up a publisher account, and you send them the PDFs that they upload. Several days at least, and likely during business hours only.As an actual example, I finished a <a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/179779/Children-of-the-Night" target="_blank">DMsGuild product</a> mid-Saturday. Since then I've sold 44 copies. And during that period I realized I'd forgotten something and had to make a correction/update, which occurred on Sunday. Even if I'd finished setting up my account with Paizo and had content posted there, finishing a product means waiting until  a day or more for them to approve and put the content on the site, which is time sales could be had. Now, this is a totally unfair scenario, as the PDF in question would never be sold on paizo.com - being a D&D/Ravenloft product - and stands out on the DMsGuild given the relatively fewer products on sale there. But any delay in selling might mean lost sales depending on attention at releases and competition, plus any delay in updates.</blockquote>

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