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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 2767688" data-attributes="member: 70">There's certainly room for compromise.  "A" concerns me only because I've seen several defunct publishers sell or hand off their catalog to other publishers -- so while the "original" publisher is out of business, the products are still in the retail pipeline.  Related to that is the question of discontinued lines; for example, AEG has ended d20 support for Rokugan and Swashbuckling Adventures, but isn't out of business and could, in theory, revive those at any time.  One could argue that free release of the material in those lines will a) spark interest and revive sales, or b) drive sales of the remaining products down."B" and "C" are valid.The only advantages to avoiding smaller products are a)not penalizing pdf publishers that specialize in small products, and b) keeping the size of the S.15 down.  The Ronin Arts catalog alone is, what, 200-300 items?Incidently, the S.15 doesn't have to printed in its normal bullet list appearance.  You could compress the section by taking out line breaks and leaving a star or bullet between entries.This is probably going to be the most difficult thing to address.  When is a "variant" sufficiently varied to stand on its own?  Everyone has a different appreciation of game balance and game flavor (I'm high fantasy/high magic myself).  Can a system be devised and instituted that a) maintains and improves entries to meet a consistent baseline power level, and b) preserves quality variations?I still don't want to do this (absolute lack of technical knowledge, for one thing), but it's an increasingly intriguing challenge (can you plot a course that presents as much OGC as possible, preserves the perceived value of the original source, and creates a quality product?).CheersNell.</blockquote>

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