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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Setanta" data-source="post: 1495324" data-attributes="member: 2183">4E being closed worsens the situation because it would be more difficult for companies to produce compatable material. If some companies (even if it's just WotC) are producing 4E stuff, and others (maybe everyone but WotC) are making 3.5 stuff, we, the consumers, lose. I'm going to guess you don't see it that way, since from your previous comments I'm thinking you wouldn't feel a need to choose, but I would feel a need to choose.  Fair enough, but it seems you're assuming that people wouldn't bother paying you for it just because they aren't legally required to.  Well, I know if I put out an OGC book (OGC because it's all crunch), I would hope people would pay me for my work (assuming I was actually charging for it). Since I would hope people would pay me, I'll certainly pay them.  I wasn't actually arguing anything. Just asking. I just wanted to see how you'd respond.  See, I think it is healthy for the people to release OGC created by others. I just see a difference between someone taking some OGC from one book, adding to it (even if it's just indexing the book with hyperlinks) and releasing it, and someone taking 100% of the text of a product and posting it for anyone to download for free. I pretty much agree with samothdm here. I think Bendris Noulg posting sections of UA on his website for his players is great. At some point though, rather than posting all of it, I think it becomes more fair to the publisher to just ask players to buy the book if they want to use the rules. There's definitely a lot of gray area there- no doubt.</blockquote>

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