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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4036123" data-attributes="member: 22779">This is a bit untrue.  The crash had a lot more to do with the move to 3.5 than with economics.  And, there really was a huge glut of material that was certainly not mythical.  I would say its more of a sign that WOTC is tired of d20 publishers piggybacking on their design and development to go ahead and make products that directly compete.  Take Scarred Lands.  It came out the second 3e hit the shelves.  It actually had a monster book out BEFORE the 3e Monster Manual.  That's not helping WOTC at all.  So, basically, you have a number of companies that took the millions of dollars that WOTC spent on developing 3e and turn around and produce, not complementary products which is what WOTC assumed that they would do, but directly competitive products.  It's a pretty bad business plan to give ALL of your goodies away to the competition.  And that's what the SRD did.  Other than a tiny handful of elements - half a dozen monsters and some proper nouns, every bit of Core D&D was open.  You are saying that you allow parts of your standards to be open.  Do you allow all standards to be open?  With respect to Pramas, I think he's mistaken.  The d20 publishers never really did modules.  He pointed to Freeport and a couple of  others.    Compare that to the number of titles that weren't modules.  SSS produced dozens of titles, with a grand total of three modules.  Green Ronin's own module production is absolutely dwarfed by its other d20 products.Last time I mentioned this on these boards, several prominent game designers called me a thief who just wanted their material for free.  The chances of seeing a 3rd party SRD is slim to none because everyone else wants to suckle on the teat but no one wants to pay.</blockquote>

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