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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 2772338" data-attributes="member: 6390">How is the current method a monopoly?Anyone can register with RPGNow and the EN Game Store.Anyone can create a d20 gaming supplement, or even an OGL game, for that matter.The OGC created by the gamer community has the same viable method of distribution that all of used.RPGNow.DrivethruRPG.and now, EN Game Store.There's books to help beginning publishers, many companys, authors, layout designers, etc, all offer advice and assistance.There's no monopoly. Current publishers aren't some monolithic organization with a lock on the entire market.That's a broad, unfair portriat that we are all out to crush the "poor little guy" when we all started like that, and I know for a fact that some of the bigger names have helped out people, many of whom put out only 1 or 2 books before moving on to other things.What many people dislike about the OGC Wiki is the idea that it doesn't matter what we want, our work will end up there within days or hours of us publishing it, without even the ability to ask for it to be removed.It's part of the "gentleman's agreement" currently in place. If I was to ask, say, Wulf, to remove the mechanics I came up with for mitigating the damage of thrown AAA batteries against jelly-folk from his Big Book of Semi-Solid Creatures, I believe he would, just as if he asked me to remove the mechanics for determining the effects on a player who stuck his face into frozen plasma for my Big Book of Idiotic Actions, I would. Neither of us would make an issue of the fact that the other choose to ask us to remove thier mechanics.I could get behind the OGC Wiki, IF I retained the right to say: "Pull that." and the people running the Wiki would comply. It's only fair.</blockquote>

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