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Message: <blockquote data-quote="UniversalMonster" data-source="post: 2801553" data-attributes="member: 1034">It might be hard for Mearls to do an Open Source wiki himself right now, because he is very busy, plus he is now an official WOTC guy. But a long time ago, before he was a 'name' he did release a lot of stuff for free- I think my favorite thing he did was called 'Seize them'- which was kind of a game about being a lackey for a supervillian. This was late 1990s sometime. I was thinking about it lately because I have been playing the heck out of City of Villians. ANYHOW, I do agree that more people should make their creative work available online as open source. I used to do it myself- even before there was d20-- I would make up monsters and maps and spells and stuff for Torg or Beyond the Supernatural or whatever we were playing at the time..  and just post it on my website, and very often I got all kinds of positive feedback for it.. I think it's kind of a cool sub-hobby of RPGs. More people should definitely do this. Let a thousand ideas flourish...  You will get some feedback, usually- some random person may drop by or link to it or send you a nice email. It's fun stuff. By the time D&D came out I was kind of out of it, but the modular nature of d20 is great for this. You don't have to develop a whole setting, you can just make up a feat or a magic item or something. Fun stuff. I did a (fairly poor) conversion of the Sha'ir class, and some monster classes at one point. I used to really have fun with that. Yeah, more people should do that. I don't buy PDFs in general, but I will look at open source stuff (here and elsewhere). Now I just don't like editing webpages so much.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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