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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JVisgaitis" data-source="post: 4386619" data-attributes="member: 4177">Sure, it might achieve that, but at what cost? The loss of official support from Green Ronin, Paizo, and others? I see what you are getting at and it makes a lot of sense. Contrary to what people are saying here, there was a HUGE glut and we have unsold product ourselves. In almost every game store I visit there is a huge bargin bin of d20 material.What doesn't make sense is why you would create a GSL that alienates your best supporters. Let's face it, all of the restrictions of the GSL are unappealing to larger companies. Green Ronin has said it. Paizo had said it. If I ran a bigger company and my RPG sales put bread on my table, I don't think I would go GSL either. Wizards is going to war and leaving their best soldiers behind. There is no way that this can possibly be construed to make an once of sense.Getting a product carried through distribution for any d20 company whether it's 3rd Edition or 4th Edition is going to be really tough for any new company. Its probably going to require a consolidator like Impressions or a partnership with an existing company like Paizo. The distributors are at the best position to handle the upcoming glut, and I can imagine what Aldo would say if he was approached with a ton of new d20 publishers.I'm all for the American Dream and small garage companies (like mine) being able to release d20 products and try to compete in the gaming industry, but if Wizards intended the GSL to help reduce the glut, don't you think they would have tried to alienate smaller garage publishers as opposed to the likes of Paizo and Green Ronin?</blockquote>

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