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Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jezter6" data-source="post: 2764008" data-attributes="member: 6567">Consider me of the 'information for free' contingent. Personally, it's just some added rules to a game that is complete already. You're adding some new bits, but really...is 17 new magical pipe cleaners THAT innovative that we should be paying for it? Sure, if it's included in a book of 1000 other pieces of equipment at a reasonable cost...I can see it.My personal problem is that it's so easy to be a publisher, every Average joe could do it, and a LARGE portion of average joes DO do it. Too many fisherman, really small pond. I'll do my best not to offend anyone personally, but this is my blanket generalization of the industry:Some people put out neat stuff. Some people don't. The people who don't are taking sales dollars from those who do. Therefore, to make the same money they made last year, they need to find new ways of doing biz that gains a better profit margin.  Now, those that have been in the business are trying to stay in business, but they're also getting all elitist. Now they consider the whole product (even the OGC) their identity. Even though you can freely use the OGC, nobody wants it to be done unless it's in a manner the original writer approves of. Sorry, it's not your rules...it's OPEN. Open means we can do what we want with it. Light it on fire in the back yard. Flush it down the toilet like the crap it sometimes is. Or even republish it. WotC put out their OGC free. They didn't hide it behind some area where you have to be a publisher first to be allowed to access it, they give it away. We see WotC do it,  so therefore many of us think that open content should be available to the public. Personally, if publishers put out pure text files of just the open content with the PDF they bought, I doubt you'd see massive loss of sales on it because it's just text. And you're worried someone will take it and resell it and take your money. Guess what, it doesn't matter...you'll still make your money.WotC put out their OGC for FREE. OPEN to the PUBLIC. FRICKIN FREE. Yet the license allows people to copy it and repackage it for profit (and people DID), and guess what...people BOUGHT it. They spent the money, you made the profit...on selling stuff that was free. They even do it out in L.A. with oxygen.Personally, I think most publishers need to lighten up and go back to doing business. People still are going to buy your products because they like to buy products. Gamers spend willy nilly with their money, even if they come here and post about the high price of products and how they don't like it. Game material is like crack in that manner.</blockquote>

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