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<blockquote data-quote="Veander" data-source="post: 108753" data-attributes="member: 1693">Another twistA bit of a twist on this is something Monte Cook refers to on his site somewhere.&nbsp; It's about some game designers not even playing the games yet still being the ones creating them.&nbsp; So while I am certainly not saying even these folks shouldn't be paid as much as true RPing game designers, it makes you feel like diffferent about some of the products you buy.&nbsp; I dont know who these game designers who don't play the games they design are, but it sort of makes me feel like what the record industry attempts to do sometimes.&nbsp; They have focus groups deciding how albums are put together and even band members sometimes.&nbsp; Maybe a bad analogy, but I know I would rather game designers actually played some table-top DnD, as well as the vry game system they write for.In any event, I'll download them as long as I can, but whenever a chunk of money comes into my grasp I will always spend it on gaming books.&nbsp; Regardless of whether I have in PDF or not.&nbsp; I haven't met anyone yet who would have actually went out and bought the growing amount of 3rd edition material if the PDFs simply weren't available for free.&nbsp; Exceptions to every rule aside I know.&nbsp; I just bought 8 AEG Booster adventures and I would think I never woul dhave had I not tried one of them.&nbsp; Good stuff really.&nbsp; Ok, I am ready to be demoralized.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />V</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Veander, post: 108753, member: 1693"] [b]Another twist[/b] A bit of a twist on this is something Monte Cook refers to on his site somewhere. It's about some game designers not even playing the games yet still being the ones creating them. So while I am certainly not saying even these folks shouldn't be paid as much as true RPing game designers, it makes you feel like diffferent about some of the products you buy. I dont know who these game designers who don't play the games they design are, but it sort of makes me feel like what the record industry attempts to do sometimes. They have focus groups deciding how albums are put together and even band members sometimes. Maybe a bad analogy, but I know I would rather game designers actually played some table-top DnD, as well as the vry game system they write for. In any event, I'll download them as long as I can, but whenever a chunk of money comes into my grasp I will always spend it on gaming books. Regardless of whether I have in PDF or not. I haven't met anyone yet who would have actually went out and bought the growing amount of 3rd edition material if the PDFs simply weren't available for free. Exceptions to every rule aside I know. I just bought 8 AEG Booster adventures and I would think I never woul dhave had I not tried one of them. Good stuff really. Ok, I am ready to be demoralized. :) V [/QUOTE]

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