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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JLowder" data-source="post: 9703891" data-attributes="member: 28003">When hobby games distributors Wizards Attic and then Osseum went under in short succession in the early 2000s, burning their clients and leaving captive stock hostage at hostile warehouses, they drove some good publishers out of the market; I was working with one of them, Green Knight, who owned and published Pendragon at the time. If Diamond wins this fight and takes the product, it will be a much larger extinction-level event in games and especially comics. Even for the companies that survive, the loss will impact their plans and schedules for years.It will also impact the creators working with the companies, and not just through potential missing payments for existing work. When this kind of thing happens, some of the damage remains invisible. Book channel returns almost put (old) White Wolf out of business in the late 1990s, an unintended side effect of WotC buying TSR and starting up the presses again. That pretty much destroyed their previously thriving fiction program, which included World of Darkness fiction and also a lot of creator-owned stuff. I had a creator-owned novel contract cancelled and some other potential WoD short fiction projects wiped out when that all went down. And I was far from alone as a freelancer in taking that hit.Green Ronin does great work, and they try to treat the creators who work with them well. I pitched in for the GoFundMe.</blockquote>

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