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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 6294429" data-attributes="member: 67338">no of course not, in fact I don't think that it was at all WotC 'fault' per say, but they did something that wasn't in there or our best intrest (IMO) sort of...   well if they knew there fan base <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (just kidding)too true....also true...To put my mind set in perspective I would have done everything WotC or Piazo did in there place... but I would be wrong, it just wouldn't look that way at the time.in 1998 I thought D&D was on the ropes and going down fast. I had no faith that some weird CCG company would make anything I was interested in, and even if they did I doubted they could sustain it. I really would have placed money by 1999 that WoD and White wolf in general was about to win 1st place in RPGs and kill D&D and take it's fans (hey in my defiance I was far from the only person guessing that)...  I also at my core believe in the goodness of 'just working togather' so in Dancy's place I would have made every move he did... The idea of people taking the ogl and making it a compatation instead of a friendly work togather group would never dawn on me...Now I'm going to switch gears (please everyone follow me here.) to comics and star trek. I have been a comic fan longer then a roleplayer. I remember the lead up to Death of Superman and Knight fall, and the Strife stories in X force... In the mid 90's I was reading over $100 a month in comics... almost every DC title and all the X titles and Spider titles...  I stopped reading bit by bit... and 4 years ago was down to about a dozen DC titles, Witchblade, and GI Joe, no Marvel at all. I missed the Xmen and Spiderman but I hated every comic I read of there's. I tried to jump in a few times. Then GI Joe got canceled/rebooted and I didn't like it and DC relaunched it's whole universe. In January my pull list hit it's all time low (the min to have a pull list at my store) 6 titles... and 2 of those have been announced to be canceled... If I could legally launch my own comic company and write about the Captian Atom, and Superman and Green Lantern of ten years ago I would in a second... If I could get stories about X-men from fifteen years ago I would jump up and down with glee. I am bearly a comic book fan anymore, but if I could turn back the clock and read or create for those old ones... witch is what pathfinder did...I have been a star trek fan longer then a comic fan. I couldn't read a comic when my dad used to watch the old series in reruns. I saw Star trek 4 in theaters... and since I have only not seen 1 in theaters. I watched Next gen and ds9 religiously. I owned nick pickers guides and tech manuals and minis and a phaser TV remote.  I remember wanting to love Voyager.   I even used to have a pad tracking there Photon torpedoes throught he first season... but It never felt right... I stayed till the bitter end but by that point I didn't even really like it.When Enterprise launched it lost me really early, and I didn't even see the last season or so. I thought trek was dead.then came JJ Abrams and it looked like we were getting a new fresh life into my shows... but even though I do love the new movies (saw both in theaters and own them on DVD) They aren't the same. I wrote adventures and idea's for ST games based on continuing after voyager and just forgetting enterprise... If I could get a cool new story post Dominion war post voyager getting home I would love it.   I would still go to see a third Abrams trek, but I would be fine with both even...OK so long road back to D&D... I would in a heart beat make a "pathfinder" for star trek or comics, but doing so would not be in everyone's best interest. (although for some of us it would) Comic and Trek Fandom are both fractured already, but having a compeating source at the same time would make it worse...so even as the odd man out with the unpopular opion, I stand by the fact the the OGL did more harm then good...using perfect 20/20 hinde sight I don't think I could have done any better though...</blockquote>

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