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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orcus" data-source="post: 44689" data-attributes="member: 1254">Wow! Guess I should jump in.You are right on. We are not Enron. But I do have a paper shredder. Does that count?As for being a "big boy" I think that is all relative. I guess I am a "big boy" of d20 companies, for whatever that is worth. But I will say this. Necro is affiliated with WW. Steve Wieck (pres of WW) and I speak on nearly a daily basis and work out many product strategies. Obviously I am not going to do anything to get WotC pissed at me or perhaps more importantly pissed at my friends at WW. This is a very small community. Someone posted that if I did something "to the max" it would have repricussions for us all. You are right about that. But please remember I'm the guy that produced the monster book that beat the offical monster book to press. I know all about that issue and I wouldnt do anything to sink d20. I am here to promote d20, not ruin it. If I thought a product of mine would ruin d20 I would cancel the product and eat the loss. I love d20. So my company is not one of the ones that you need to worry about causing spill over effect.As for being a lawyer and making mistakes. I make them all the time. Notice several sentence fragments in the above text. Regarding the Creature Catalog:1. Obviously there are a number of monsters we cant do. I am working with WotC on that issue (and a number of other issues). Could an unforseen legal issue derail this whole project? Its possible. But I dont think that will happen.2. As for crediting the original contributors, to the extent it can be determined who submitted what they will be credited. So Scott will have to help me with that. But I have every intention of crediting the original contributors (particularly for the original monsters). But Scott and I will work that out. Will someone get overlooked? Probably. Will people disagree on who deserves the credit for a particular thing/monster/item/whatever? Probably. So I will appologize in advance if I goof it up. But understand that I want to give credit where it is due. So does Scott. 3. Necro is not so much "grabbing this up" as we are facilitating Scott's site being taken to the next level. It was the site that led me to hire him and now we are proud to help him get it out.4. As to whether we have misjudged the potential of the product, I guess I dont really care. I like Scott alot. I love the site. I wanted to make this happen. We will sell enough to pay for its cost of production at the very least. Thats good enough for me. This is why d20 is cool. Not everything has to be a pure business decision. Some stuff can just be a gaming decision. And I think this will be cool for gaming. Maybe I will be wrong. But I dont think I am. Nor do I think I have misjudged the product. But what the hell do I know? We'll let the market decide.5. I dont see repricussions from the fan community. If anything, I think they will think it is cool that their names might be in print rather than on a web site and then they can use that on a resume. There has long been a "legitimacy" gap between "print" stuff and "fan" stuff. I am helping bridge that gap because alot of times that gap is more about the snobbery of printing than about quality. I dont see fans getting pissed. But again, what do I know. I havent gotten any hate mail. If anyone wants to send some, my address is <a href="mailto:clark@necromancergames.com">clark@necromancergames.com</a>. We are committed to taking gamer comments into account because we are gamers ourselves.Hope that helps!Clark</blockquote>

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