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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 7913120" data-attributes="member: 6779310"><p>What they did for MGT1 was provide a rich ecosystem of products of quality, some better than Mongoose itself, and many comparable quality. I think Spica's (Spica Publishing Limited) are pretty much top of the scale, personally. The materials by Gypsy Knight Games are well regarded, tho' I've not myself used them. Mongoose directly benefited from 3PP, in that it helped drive sales. And those sales benefitted the 3PPs. </p><p></p><p>Mongoose deciding to commercialize 3PP materials for themselves, especially at the fairly stiff rates the Community Content model does, was plenty to trigger a repetition of the D&D/Pathfinder break away with 4E's GSL. </p><p></p><p>Note that, despite the d20 STL going away, the OGL-20 STL is a result, and there are still new d20 SRD derivatives coming out.</p><p></p><p>It's worth noting as well, Wizards has gone both ways with 5E: the 5E SRD is very limited in content, but very open, while the Community Content program (with its onerous copyright forfeiture provisions, single point of sale, and high fees) for those who want to do D&D labeled stuff.</p><p></p><p>Wizards benefits from good press and a lot of clearly compatible but not labeled as such material, while directly benefiting financially from the widely variable quality CCP D&D materials. </p><p></p><p>Marc accepts that CE is close enough to be supported by his web presence; about a quarter of the COTI traffic is CE related. (MGT generally is fairly low - 5%-10% of COTI, in part because Mongoose has their own website.) And Marc directly benefits from CE being part of COTI... Traveller is Marc's hobby effort, and it's making money, as well. COTI supports more than just the board with its memberships, too - Marc hosts the Traveller Wiki and FarFuture.net on the same server. (Readily checked if one does a DNS lookup manually.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 7913120, member: 6779310"] What they did for MGT1 was provide a rich ecosystem of products of quality, some better than Mongoose itself, and many comparable quality. I think Spica's (Spica Publishing Limited) are pretty much top of the scale, personally. The materials by Gypsy Knight Games are well regarded, tho' I've not myself used them. Mongoose directly benefited from 3PP, in that it helped drive sales. And those sales benefitted the 3PPs. Mongoose deciding to commercialize 3PP materials for themselves, especially at the fairly stiff rates the Community Content model does, was plenty to trigger a repetition of the D&D/Pathfinder break away with 4E's GSL. Note that, despite the d20 STL going away, the OGL-20 STL is a result, and there are still new d20 SRD derivatives coming out. It's worth noting as well, Wizards has gone both ways with 5E: the 5E SRD is very limited in content, but very open, while the Community Content program (with its onerous copyright forfeiture provisions, single point of sale, and high fees) for those who want to do D&D labeled stuff. Wizards benefits from good press and a lot of clearly compatible but not labeled as such material, while directly benefiting financially from the widely variable quality CCP D&D materials. Marc accepts that CE is close enough to be supported by his web presence; about a quarter of the COTI traffic is CE related. (MGT generally is fairly low - 5%-10% of COTI, in part because Mongoose has their own website.) And Marc directly benefits from CE being part of COTI... Traveller is Marc's hobby effort, and it's making money, as well. COTI supports more than just the board with its memberships, too - Marc hosts the Traveller Wiki and FarFuture.net on the same server. (Readily checked if one does a DNS lookup manually.) [/QUOTE]
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