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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 8928693" data-attributes="member: 5142">There has been a line of argumentation here that has disturbed me surrounding how choosing not to buy from WotC affects 3pp. So let's be clear about something: If I as a consumer choose to buy products from WotC, Third Party Publishers do not see a single cent of that money. WotC gets all of that money. Third Party Publishers do not. If anyone chooses to boycott WotC products, then that has no bearing on whether they spend money supporting Third Party Publishers. It really only matters if they choose to buy Third Party Products via DMsGuild.Third Party Publishers only receive financial support from me if I buy their products (e.g., Kickstarter, DMsGuild, DriveThruRPG, stores, etc.) or support them on Patreon or some other way. If I buy Third Party Publishers' materials on DMsGuild, then I am also giving WotC and OneBookShelf a slice. So if I am concerned about directly supporting 3pp, then there are better, often more direct ways of doing that. But as it turns out, it is possible for me to give 5e Third Party Publishers money without giving WotC my money. I can even watch 5e content creators on YouTube without giving WotC my money.Moreover, people on this thread have been keen on reminding me and others that they are consumers first and foremost. If WotC has a product that they want, then they will buy it. If not, they won't buy it. That is also true for 3rd Party Publishers. As a consumer and hobbyist, I am not morally obligated to financially support either WotC or Third Party Publishers for D&D products. I too choose to vote with my wallet. There are plenty of 3rd Party Publishers out there who are choosing not to publish materials for the Dragon Game. I have voted with my wallet many times to support them via Kickstarter and DriveThruRPG. I do resent the idea that the only way that I can support the health of the hobby or 3pp is through feeding the overfed, feral Dragon. That's ridiculous and toxic.Since 2013, I have help fund fifty TTRPG games (excluding more specialized non-system related products) on Kickstarter, and only six of them have been 5e-related products:Probably the product that I have spent the most time pouring my time over from these has been Green Ronin's Book of the Righteous, which provided a nice face lift to one of my gold standard favorite supplements of all time. Truth be told, I have honestly used practically none of the 5e materials from these Kickstarters.</blockquote>

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