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<blockquote data-quote="Lockridge" data-source="post: 3583844" data-attributes="member: 43850">I used to be a WOTC brand label shopper just to be sure that I was getting a quality product.&nbsp; Then I tried some stuff from Malhavoc, Necromancer and Green Ronin among others and realized how much I was limiting my choices.Two reasons I buy non-WOTC stuff:1. Price.&nbsp; A lot of what I purchase is in pdf and I find that WOTC overcharges for pdfs while other publishers charge half or less of the printed costs.2. Creativity.&nbsp; I find that a lot of 3rd party publishers are not limited to what &quot;the marketing department is trying to push&quot;.&nbsp; Imagine being a game designer with a really great idea for a adventure that takes place in setting X and is 100 pages long.&nbsp; Then your boss tells you that we want to support(push) Eberron and people have short attention spans so your great idea becomes mangled to fit a different setting and must be only 32 pages long.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lockridge, post: 3583844, member: 43850"] I used to be a WOTC brand label shopper just to be sure that I was getting a quality product. Then I tried some stuff from Malhavoc, Necromancer and Green Ronin among others and realized how much I was limiting my choices. Two reasons I buy non-WOTC stuff: 1. Price. A lot of what I purchase is in pdf and I find that WOTC overcharges for pdfs while other publishers charge half or less of the printed costs. 2. Creativity. I find that a lot of 3rd party publishers are not limited to what "the marketing department is trying to push". Imagine being a game designer with a really great idea for a adventure that takes place in setting X and is 100 pages long. Then your boss tells you that we want to support(push) Eberron and people have short attention spans so your great idea becomes mangled to fit a different setting and must be only 32 pages long. [/QUOTE]

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