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<blockquote data-quote="Arcane Runes Press" data-source="post: 1730322" data-attributes="member: 402">Yeah, Wizards hoped companies would &quot;ignore it's market research&quot;, but not because of any altruistic hope 3rd party publishers would support the soul of the industry. They hoped 3rd party guys would publish modules so they wouldn't have to - freeing up resources to concentrate on the real money train: big sourcebooks.It was a business decision for WotC - just like choosing to publish the higher profit sourcebooks was a business decision for 3rd party companies.&nbsp; This argument never fails to impress me with its silliness. The desire to make money and the desire to be creative are not mutually exclusive - and since I try and put the same amount of creativity into every book I write, be it an adventure or a sourcebook of some sort, and since I get the same satisfaction from writing sourcebooks as a I do from writing adventures, I see no good reason at all to settle for 1,000 dollars when I can earn 2,000.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arcane Runes Press, post: 1730322, member: 402"] Yeah, Wizards hoped companies would "ignore it's market research", but not because of any altruistic hope 3rd party publishers would support the soul of the industry. They hoped 3rd party guys would publish modules so they wouldn't have to - freeing up resources to concentrate on the real money train: big sourcebooks. It was a business decision for WotC - just like choosing to publish the higher profit sourcebooks was a business decision for 3rd party companies. This argument never fails to impress me with its silliness. The desire to make money and the desire to be creative are not mutually exclusive - and since I try and put the same amount of creativity into every book I write, be it an adventure or a sourcebook of some sort, and since I get the same satisfaction from writing sourcebooks as a I do from writing adventures, I see no good reason at all to settle for 1,000 dollars when I can earn 2,000. [/QUOTE]

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