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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 4891881" data-attributes="member: 1">It's not "meant" to be anything.  The forums don't exist to publicise anything; or even to generate conversation. They exist merely to facilitate conversations folks want to have. If RPG companies want publicity, they're welcome to pay me for it! Otherwise, my only concern here is afacilitating the various conversations which take place and making things easier for some folks. Now Pathfinder fans can come here and find a forum filled with threads about their favourite game. No need to scroll though multiple pages and various forums.  I don't quite grasp this desire for "fairness". "Fair" to who? RPG companies? We're not adjudicating a criminal trial here, we're just chatting about games. It's not a statement on the respective quality of the different games, it's not an international consortium of game sales adjudication, it's not a trade restriction or a law, it's not an election. The byword is "convenience", not "fairness".  Well, as I said earlier, I totally disagree. I see this as a promotion and more exposure, more convenient facilities for Pathfinder fans. Anyway, it's just a forum on a messageboard. Neither WotC nor Paizo need EN World's help to sell plenty of books, and both have perfectly fine, large and busy messageboards of their own where they can be as "fair" to themselves as they wish. This arrangement may, as I believe, make things more convenient, or it may not. Only time will tell. There's this thread here saying this is bad for Pathfinder folks, and there's the thread in the forum saying how great it is for Pathfinder folks. Whether it's bad or great, or both, or neither, it just really isn't that big a deal. It's not going to affect anybody's fortunes one iota. Anyway, you are welcome to express your opinion, but I don't want to give the false impression to folks that this is a decision by committee or some kind of democratic process. I've decided to make this change; and some point in the future I may decide to make other changes, or change back, or turn the site into a Pokemon website, or ban discussion of anything coloured yellow, or employ my dog as a moderator, and they'll all be arbitrary decisions primarily made accoridng to my personal opinion of what would work best. So you're welcome to offer your views, and I'll read 'em, but for the moment this is the arrangement I want to go with. It's not going to please everyone, but no action will please everyone. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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