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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 2671788" data-attributes="member: 3477">I agree <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=":)" />. I was just thinking about something else, more along the line "What do the two companies think is their most valuable asset?". We know that companies are no charities, they have to make money in order to survive. If we look into what we were told about WotC's strategy in the early days of 3e, the d20 system itself was not seen as a big value in and itself, and that's why we get the SRD for free. We were told that the money lies in the sales of the three core books, and everything else was meant to merely maximize those sales. I don't want to discuss now whether this original notion might have been altered or extended during the last 5 years, but let's say, that it doesn't make much sense to give away the core books for free if you believe in that strategy.If WW now decides to give their current core rule book away for free (though for a limited time only), this tells me that they see their main assets somewhere else. Do you think this may be because the core book itself is of limited use on its own, and you are supposed to buy more books in order to be able to play?</blockquote>