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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Setanta" data-source="post: 1494882" data-attributes="member: 2183">I know I said I was probably going to bow out, but I failed my Will save. First, I don't expect you to agree with me. Second, I don't think we can come up with hard, factual evidence without things like sales numbers for something that doesn't even exist yet, and won't be available to us if and when 4E does exist. Anyway, I'll direct you to Monte Cook, who talked about how he saw 3.0 and 3.5 splitting the D20 market back when 3.5 came out. Monte knows a lot more about this business than I do. If he thinks 3.5 was going to split the market and hurt all publishers (except maybe WotC, I don't remember if they were included in his point), it would seem a closed 4E would be worse, partly for reasons SamothDM covers in his most recent post (new players, only some converted 3.5 players, blah blah blah, it was a long post (j/k samothDM). Also, I've never taken debate class or whatever, but I'm just wondering. Aren't you making an assertion that a closed 4E WOULDN'T hurt the industry? Don't you need to provide evidence? I'm just asking, as I'm not clear on how my assertion is so different from yours, from a rules-of-debate standpoint.   I suspect Chris doesn't mind you posting stuff for your players. I think he was just saying he'd appreciate it if people don't give away his game for free, as in "Hey everyone, I OCR'd S&B, download it for free here (URL)"</blockquote>