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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trollwad" data-source="post: 1587551" data-attributes="member: 19187">AMEN! It is amazing how much people love to go off on a rant about something that they dont even seem to read/refer to.  No one said Gygax is god or anything else but it seems wise to me to at least carefully consider what someone with more gaming credits than anyone I can think of, has to say on a given subject.Just to give people on this list some context (Ive read a lot of gygax interviews over the years):1)  modules are a thinner margin business.  By all accounts, the present TSR/WOTC/whatever is a high overhead business as currently constituted.  companies are often tempted to cede lower margin business to competitors (detroit ceding small autos to the japanese is one infamous example) rather than reorienting people/salaries etc to compete on the "low end."  Decide for yourself.2)  centralized quality control does seem important to me.  even linux, the ultimate decentralized build your own system, has linus torvalds and others sitting at the center and deciding which system tweaks will be incorporated in the next version of linux.3)  OGL helping veterans vs. enticing new gamers is important to gygax.  Other interviews show that he believes that young potential gamers are spending more time with videogames than with roleplaying with humans.  even when they do come to roleplaying they often come at the game from a videogaming mentality.  Gygax has implied that he believes that wotc should make more effort to entice new gamers and also to create roleplaying oriented video gaming product.Decide for yourself the pros and cons of these matters (I think there is some merit to his case, though he probably overstates it somewhat) but at least read what he is saying carefully.  His few advocates on this board never said that mssr. gygax was an infallible oracle so anyone who is fighting against that is tilting against a straw man.</blockquote>

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