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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 1740248" data-attributes="member: 871">Honestly... no.  I don't.However, an award isn't a selling point with me for any product, because, IMHO, awards are quite subjective.  I don't particularly care to buy a product that a bunch of people may think is good.  OTOH, I will buy a product if it grabs my interest, provides me with things that I find useful for my games/campaigns, if I personally like it better than similar products out there, etc.I will admit though, one of the big selling points to me is the WotC label--granted, this definitely isn't a sure-fire indicator of good quality, but it does grab my interest quickly.  And, I may not use the book wholecloth, but I still find it useful.  However, this more or less applies to "generic" supplements rather than world-specific ones: I might jot down/borrow a feat, rule, spell, monster, or magic item from a FR book or an Eberron book, but I most certainly won't purchase that product because of those few elements.Third-party publishers really took a big hit w/ me confidence-wise because of the rather hit-or-miss quality of works out there during the "birth" of 3.X D&D and the OGL.  If third-party publishers want a reason to explain/blame poor sales, then they can take it up with a lot of the now-defunct 3rd-party publishers who put out a high number of low-quality products.Sure, there are some really good 3rd-party publisher materials out there, but honestly, they don't grab my interest in the slightest.  Sorry Mr. Cook, but I'm pretty much happy with the current ruleset for D&D, & I'm not interested in the alternate D&D that is Arcana Unearthed.  Sorry Green Ronin, but I'm still very happy using Marvel SAGA for my superhero games, and won't be switching to M&M anytime soon; besides, if you want, you can blame TSR's d% Marvel Super Heroes and Palladium's Heroes Unlimited for why I no longer want to use any sort of dice-based supers game (and, you can blame Marvel itself for killing pretty much any interest in trying new superhero games thanks to their own RPG attempt with MURPG).  While their products are nice & impressive, it's just not what I'm in the market for at all.Ultimately, it's nice that I product that I may buy has won an award, but if anything, that is more of a happy coincidence rather than anything else.  To a degree, it's sorta like restaurants that win local awards for the Best (insert specific type of Cuisine here) in Town: if I like what they're seriving, I go back there; if I don't, they won't see me or a a single dollar of my business.  Whether or not they won an award is neither here nor there for me.Y'know, even though some of the Ultima games didn't win the Origins awards certain years, that didn't stop me from buying more Ultima games, playing them, & enjoying them.  What did stop me from buying Ultima games was a severe decline in quality, functionality issues, and a lack of ease of use with my computer system at the time.  Oddly enough, it seemed that Ultima went downhill after EA got Origin.  I wonder if this analogy may be equally viable for the now Hasbro-owned WotC, too.But, then again, this is all MHO on the matter.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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