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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4165466" data-attributes="member: 2067">Anyone who thinks that the GSL scenario isn't more than a little FUBAR'd is drinking the WotC Kool-Aid a bit too strongly, and might want to stop kissing the company so deeply so that they can see the world outside of their passion for 4e. <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=";)" />Anyone who thinks that WotC is, in 4e, is going to fall victim to the "thousand little cuts" of 3rd party publishers might need to refill their glass to remember what MOST D&D fans are like. I'm pretty sure people care more about the name "Dungeons and Dragons" than could ever care about the specific rules the game is played under. The worst that the "Coke Classic" versions of 3e could do is limit how fast and how strong 4e can grow. They can perhaps make it slightly less of a success, but I don't believe they can make it fail.FWIW, I think it's really sweet how Monte raves about the pdf industry, and I think it's very cool that he has found the virtues of the system. For small publishers, it's an unparalleled realm of possibility, especially when you add the strength of name recognition and minor celebrity to the mix. If I made 6 PDF's a year, and sold them at $10 apiece, I'd only need about 1,000 people to buy them in order to live a pretty good low-income life here in NYC (heck, that'd be more than I make doing my current job, almost!). Since not even Wizards gets rich off of this game, I'd be pretty happy with that. Perhaps I just need 1,000 people who will try out what I put out for $10? <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=";)" />Basically, pdf publishing is very cool, though it's barely a blip on the radar of something like Wizards, and it'll never totally supplant books, but it's a nice way to make a small profit as a small outfit, without having to deal with the immense overhead that a process like WotC's can generate. It's a different way to work with the industry, and it's rewarding in its own ways, I imagine.</blockquote>

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