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<blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3679974" data-attributes="member: 48965">Again, this is from the approach that you're only posting things that are related to D&amp;D, MtG or another of WotC's games.&nbsp; What about totally new ideas, or things for other gaming systems.&nbsp; Suppose I create a new setting for nWoD and post it on my page at Gleemax.&nbsp; Now instead of it being my creation and under my control...WotC has the right to publish it under the d20 Modern rules and make money off of it.&nbsp; This isn't a question of me creating a feat or variant rules using their system, it's a question of IP that I created seperately from WotC's rules set. I understand this view here, as enworld is a mainly d20 site...but Gleemax is suppose to encompass all games, not just WotC games.&nbsp; Another consideration is that say a game company is interested in what I've posted...they have to contend with the fact that WotC(a company with far greater revenue, profit, resources and marketing, than any other game company) could decide to publish it at any time, and &quot;officially&quot; which would compete with their product. This is your opinion, so I can't really argue against it...but I will site this post from another one of Randy's blogs...In the end any company is concerned with the bottom line, to think otherwise is naive.&nbsp; I'm not saying the guys at WotC are a bunch of hacks or thieves.&nbsp; But I'm also not going to claim I know for a fact none of them ever used another person's ideas or that they definitely wouldn't in the future.&nbsp; No they're not evil masterminds, but they are about making Hasbro money, and in the end that's what they're jos boil down to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imaro, post: 3679974, member: 48965"] Again, this is from the approach that you're only posting things that are related to D&D, MtG or another of WotC's games. What about totally new ideas, or things for other gaming systems. Suppose I create a new setting for nWoD and post it on my page at Gleemax. Now instead of it being my creation and under my control...WotC has the right to publish it under the d20 Modern rules and make money off of it. This isn't a question of me creating a feat or variant rules using their system, it's a question of IP that I created seperately from WotC's rules set. I understand this view here, as enworld is a mainly d20 site...but Gleemax is suppose to encompass all games, not just WotC games. Another consideration is that say a game company is interested in what I've posted...they have to contend with the fact that WotC(a company with far greater revenue, profit, resources and marketing, than any other game company) could decide to publish it at any time, and "officially" which would compete with their product. This is your opinion, so I can't really argue against it...but I will site this post from another one of Randy's blogs... In the end any company is concerned with the bottom line, to think otherwise is naive. I'm not saying the guys at WotC are a bunch of hacks or thieves. But I'm also not going to claim I know for a fact none of them ever used another person's ideas or that they definitely wouldn't in the future. No they're not evil masterminds, but they are about making Hasbro money, and in the end that's what they're jos boil down to. [/QUOTE]

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