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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8937097" data-attributes="member: 6915329">That is a bad premise, for exactly the reasons [USER=23751]@Maxperson[/USER] and I--and many others--have said. It first assumes that people who buy product A are going to buy a supporting product (which isn't true), and it assumes that the only options are product A and things that support it or nothing at all. There is no difference in not spending money because I don't want for reason A versus not spending money because I don't want to for reason B because trickle-down economics do not work. I bought Curse of Strahd, and I'd been running it for a long time before I decided to stick it on hiatus for a while. I did a quick search over at DM's Guild and found a ton of products designed to enhance that adventure. 891 items came up when I searched "Curse of Strahd." I was never going to buy any of them in the first place! So me buying from WotC was never going to help any of those creators in the first place.Secondly, let's assume I actually was planning on buying some of the 3pp to help enhance your game. Now, some of those nearly 900 books are actually 2e and possibly 3x books (which I already own) and some are in a language I can't read (I am sadly monolingual, despite my best efforts), but how many of the remaining hundreds of supplements would I have to buy before I'm considered to be "helping" 3pp creators? All of them? Would I be allowed to buy only one really high-rated book (which means that the creator probably has quite a large number of buyers and therefore doesn't actually need my help), or should I buy many low-rated books by creators who are just starting out and could use the boost? And if it's the latter, how many is many? Would I have to buy books written in another language as well, or do French writers not deserve to be helped?There's 133 products there tagged "Radiant Citadel" and 126 tagged "Shadow of the Dragon Queen." Again, ignoring material from earlier editions and that aren't in English, how many must I buy before it's helpful to 3pp creators?I am helping 3pp creators by directly buying 3pp material--just not material made specifically for 5e settings and adventures. Those 3pp creators are getting my money directly. How much money are you and [USER=7030563]@ECMO3[/USER] giving directly to those creators?</blockquote>

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