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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Najo" data-source="post: 4408036" data-attributes="member: 9959">Upon rereading my statement about glorified DMs, it is not coming off the way I intended it. It wasn't meant as an attack.My intention was that businesses in this industry are doing it because they love the industry more than their trying to get rich. I think that many of the great companies like Paizo, Necromancer, Green Ronin, Goodman Games, Kenzer and Company, etc are as much gamers as they are business people. I think they do set out to make money and turn over products. I think most of them try to make products that sell. But, at the heart of each of them is that gamer that wants to share the game they love and express themselves and their company with it. I think D&D and roleplaying is a medium as much as they are a game, and WOTC should remember that. Allowing 3pp is good for D&D as much as tying officially to D&D is good for the 3pp. By allowing these dedicated/ glorfied DMs to make cool stuff to sell and tie to the D&D brand (and having stanards and expectations that as long as those standards are met there is a safeharbor) then D&D gets 3pp marketing and innovation as well as market focus and less bad press.The GSL should make a 3pp want to stand up and praise 4e while keeping WOTC's concerns met.</blockquote>