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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 2803048" data-attributes="member: 6390">Ah yes, the obligatory "PDF PUBLISHERS ARE TEH EVUL AND RUINING D&D" statement.With distributors and retailers closing the door, ceasing to carry print products not done by WotC, and now the "WoW IS GOING TO KILL D&D" scare, it's all the PDF publishers fault, of course.PDF is supposedly killing innovation, but cruising The Edge and RPGNow, I see a lot of interesting and probably innovative products. Christmas has emptied my wallet into Santa's bag, or I'd have picked up a lot this time.I'd say WotC is more a culprit than 3rd Party publishers. Emails requesting permissions are going unanswered, little to no OGC has been released, and the SRD hasn't been updated in awhile as far as I know.Follow that with support for it's own products, and I'd say it was WotC that has dropped the ball.How many people have bought d20 Modern or d20 Future products because of something a 3rd party publisher out? Those two lines are almost wholly carried by the 3rd Party community.There's plenty of modules, sourcebooks, etc, for free and for pay, for d20 Modern and d20 Future out there, but how many have the WotC logo on them? WotC has put out, what, a dozen support products all together for both lines?So I'd say that it isn't so much PDF publishers who are to blame, but WotC not carrying thier weight in the OGC arena.Now let's look at emerging technology.With wireless broadband getting more and more accessable, and hand held's becoming smaller and smaller, how long until something that is about the size of the DMG is out that you can view a PDF document on that has broadband and printer features? Five years? Ten years? Six months?Mike Mearls shows the amazing lack of touch with the audience and consumer base both, as well as a propensity to cry wolf.TSR stifled creativity with it's Cease & Desist orders against websites, forums, chat groups, etc.PDF Publishers actually encourage creativity. Most publishers will look at your manuscript, probably even give you advice about it. Go ahead and email your manuscript, unsolicited, to WotC and see how much you get from that.Publishers allow product interlinking, allow freelancers to try thier hands at designing stuff for existing lines, and will offer advice, constructive criticism.Sorry, but this sounds more along the lines of "Third party publishers are TEH EVUL!" than anything actually grounded in reality.</blockquote>

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