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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 8882008" data-attributes="member: 93631">It feels a little pointless to debate this because it's never gonna happen. Kickstarter isn't interested in 5-8% of your "profits," and Wizards won't be either. Some thoughts in no particular order:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I'm not sure someone doing $750,000+ on a crowdfunded campaign counts as a "small publisher."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Granted that I have no experience in the Kickstarter era, I find the 20% prohibitive. I assume no one will be crowdfunding big 1D&D projects unless they cut a side deal with Wizards. I feel like this is probably the intent of the provision.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If you can do a $750,000 Kickstarter campaign, you can create a budget with allowances for the 20% royalty on sales above $750,000. I created budgets for OGL products with allowances for a 60% distributor discount on the first dollar of sales, and I'd make breakeven on preorders. If I couldn't do that, we didn't do the book. (You might have noticed that FFG would drop the axe on a line at a moment's notice.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">My concern about small publishers would be more focused on termination/revocation language. The royalty rate for actual small publishers is 0%.</li> </ul></blockquote>