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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PJ-Mason" data-source="post: 1823360" data-attributes="member: 12285">***Some of this may sound snarky, but its not meant that way. I swear it***What bothers you the most about Cergorach's (proposed or actual) methods? Is it that he is doing it for free? Would it be okay if he charged for the stuff? Or is it that you are not getting a cut of the action?Does WOTC complain about how YOU use THEIR OGC to make a living? Or in the case of Cergorach...not make a living? Once you become a publisher who uses/sells OGC, you have to learn to let go of the stuff you create and release as OGC. Because then its not yours anymore. Its OURS. Or you can restrict the OGC in your books. Which is cool. People might then accuse you of not following the spirit of the OGL "movement" yourself, however. Slippery slope time.Also, i really don't think it will affect your sales that much. People who take it for free are usually not the ones who were going to pay for it anyway. If Cergorach's free pdfs get popular, then you are getting a lot of promotion, since he has to clearly identify the OGC contributors in his productions. Is this the only way to look at it? No. But its the way to look at it if you don't want an ulcer, or if you don't want to turn into a "we don't trust our customers to do right by us" kinda of company. Won't name names here. cough*drm!*cough!  <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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