Crothian
First Post
Alzrius said:He has a point, but it's one that holds true in the other direction too. How many ideas would simply never have been published at all if not for the PDF market? Would we have seen products like Elements of Magic or Year of the Zombie or The Bestiary: Predators if the only recourse was to either sell the idea to an existing print-based company, or found such a company yourself? Possible, but not likely. I think the PDF market has given us far more than it has taken away.
Ya, there are some gems of the PDF market (I'm not sure I agree with your picks there but that's another matter). Instead of being PDFs though, Mearls is saying they would have been on messaage boards and shared ideas and I think improved by the community. So it is possible the gems could have been even better.