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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1537023" data-attributes="member: 99">I think all this "stick it to the corporate MAN" stuff is total BS and is simply a rationalization.  If it works for you, fine, but I've got no respect for it.  Besides, the 3rd party publishers of d20 products are about as far away from "The Man" as you can get.  The analogy is more like this:Say there's an off-Broadway play being put on.  The people involved don't anticipate that they'll make a killing at it, but they're willing to work hard at it and make it a good production because they like putting on plays and they WILL make a bit of money at it.  So they put in all the work, they put on the show and some people buy tickets.  But one of these people who bought a ticket goes around to the back door and starts letting in people who didn't buy tickets and pretty soon, half the audience is made up of people who didn't pay.Does that seem fair to the people who are putting on the play?  The people who snuck in the back door can say all day long that they wouldn't have paid full price to see the play anyway and so no money is lost by the actors.  But it is still a slap in the face to the folks who are already being paid a pittance for their work.  They spent time that they could have spent with family or friends or working or gaming and instead they spent it making this product.  And what you're saying is that that time is worth nothing.People who do that are jerks, pure and simple.</blockquote>

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