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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8360707" data-attributes="member: 29398">Let's run with this for a moment.  You put on a design-a-monster contest and get, say, 10,000 entries, of which 98% are absolutely hopeless and half the rest are borderline.That still gives you 100 useable monsters for your Monster Manual; 200 if you can make anything out of the borderline ones which - as you now co-own the rights to them - you're free to do by tweaking them or cleaning them up or whatever.Boom.  Fan-created Monster Manual, likely at considerably less overall cost to you than had it all been done in-house, and with a built-in buyer base it wouldn't have otherwise had (this the marketing piece referred to below).This points out something else that IMO should be legislated and enforced: a contest must give out all the prizes it advertises.  Advertise a billion dollar prize?  Good.  Someone's winning a billion dollars at the end of this contest and if not, contest organizers are getitng arrested. (and yes, this would do away with cumulative lottery jackpots)So do far too many other countries.  It's a sad commentary on society.</blockquote>