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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 3941127" data-attributes="member: 40359">I don't see why that is a justifiable concern. It didn't happen with 3.0 when anyone who said "I want to be a d20 publisher" got a copy of the rules. (I know, I was one of them.) It didn't happen with 3.5 when there were gobs and gobs of companies out there. So, why would they fear it would happen now especially when there are only a handful of active d20 publishers? Looking at print alone, the only ones still standing all have very good reputations. Looking at PDF, well, there's still a wide variety, but really there are only a very small number that have remained active as opposed to how many were around during 3.5 launch.So, if anything, there's far LESS of a threat of someone posting the rules than during the previous two launches, and with both of those, no copies of the rules were widely distributed before hand anyway.On the one hand, I agree that solid rules to the other publishers would be good. However, the other publishers are all professional designers and can handle a couple updates and adjust their products accordingly without any problem. Much better to get something that's close months earlier and using the extra time to tweak for the final changes (if they even impact anything in the product) than to wait until much later to see any rules whatsoever - even if they are 100% final. But that's just my opinion if I were in Paizo/Necromancer/etc.'s shoes.</blockquote>

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