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Message: <blockquote data-quote="faustus_von_goethe" data-source="post: 1280787" data-attributes="member: 15804">As I said before, we made the conscious decision to do this.  Privateer made a different decision.  They put out modules, a monster book, a source book, and a miniatures game.Effort is finite. Each and every day that Privateer spent writing, advertising, laying out, marketing, and shipping those products delayed the release of their core "Iron Kingdoms" books by at least the same amount of time, if not more.Daniel Burnham, the great Chicago architect who built the first skyscraper and (BEFORE ELECTRICITY!!!) designed and built numerous epic landmark structures around the country, including Union Station in Washington DC, once said the following: "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big." Which really is a long, wordy way of saying that if something is worth doing, it's worth doing right.D&D 3e took almost four years in the writing and had some twenty autrhors on staff - and a HUGE archive of previously written materiel to draw on.I'll make no apologies for taking the time and putting in the effort to make this the best possible product that it could be BEFORE it is published. I think if WotC had done that we would not all have had to buy 3E twice (and from what I hear a third time when 4E comes out).>>It's tough not to, considering that Earth 1066 was one of the very early d20 sites out there, and ...<<That, actually, I regret, and was not my intention.  You see, way back in the very early days of the OGL I wrote a FAQ for the OGL/D20 effort and put it up on the "brochure" page that I was using to show authors about our Earth 1066 project. I never publicized the page, never gave out the URL except to authors, and never intended it for general distribution.But when Eric Noah first saw the (unofficial) OGL FAQ he also saw our page and he added it to his list of "new" D20 companies ... and I've been responding to threads like this about every six month - usually started by (like this one was) by Alaric or (I think once or twice) by you, Colonel.Thank you for your persistence. Here is an unqualified promise. You WILL see a product from us before next summer.FaustLead EditorEarth1066 Design Team</blockquote>

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