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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 3682634" data-attributes="member: 23977">I kind of feel this is just, once again, gamers getting worked up about nothing...I guess gamers are creative people, and because of this they find it easy to invent evil plots of corruption...Anyway... I think as others have said, it's simply a way to cover their own butts for one, and two:For the most part, if you have a great new idea for a product/article, or you're an independent writer/company do you really think you're going to be posting that idea/product on a message board before you publish?  Does ANYONE do that now???Most people posting things like feats or "articles" on a message board are people who either don't care about being published, or taking WOTC's advice about getting better at writing for dragon.. (write for anything, even the message boards...)If someone posts something that WOTC likes, and they put it in the magazine or official rules, that person should be happy. Either they get to be cool to all their gamers friends, or if they want to write they now have added fuel in their future submission letters ("Hey I'm the guy who wrote the rules for x... If you liked that, you might like my idea for...")I think really it's just jiving with what the whole digital initiative seems to be about... No longer just a few select game designers... It'll be closer to games designed for/by gamers.Aside from that, I remember what they told us in all the writing classes I took..1. You actually have to copyright something for it to be copy written...  (IE that whole send it to yourself and don't open it poor mans copyright is bogus...  It won't stand.)2. If it really IS good enough to steal, the chances that someone will actually steal your project instead of just doing the much easier thing and just buying it are pretty slim...3. In the end proving someone copied your work is tough... Usually just ends up costing everyone a lot of money and the challenger loses...  Obviously with actual rules involved it's a little different... but with OGL not too much...So I say, relax... Save the evil corporation bent on world domination idea for your next cyberpunk campign. <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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