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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 7898984" data-attributes="member: 813">Ironically, most brand items and store brand items are made in the very same factories on the very same production lines. Only the labels at the end are different. The reason you think name brands are "better" is you've been conditioned to do so by advertising.Actually, they aren't identical. The Coke purchased on the west coast is made with tap water from the west coast and east coast Coke is made with east coast tap water. The flavor is probably slightly different. I know Big Macs do not taste the same in Europe as they do in the US. The local source of meat is fed differently and thus the meat tastes different.The difference here though is using an off-brand gaming element in your game isn't going to cause physical damage to your game. There's a difference between adding third party parts to a device and adding third party IDEAS to shared experience.D&D is sold without warranty, I believe. <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=":)" /> And I've already said brands have value only if the advertising has convinced you it has value.Generally, higher income people by off-brand stuff because it is cheaper and good enough. Expensive brands are designed to fleece the wannabe rich. Whether you believe that or not, I don't see how prestige applies here. WotC is a tiny, relatively unknown, subdivision of a larger company. And it doesn't have any cache' like Rolex does, does it?</blockquote>

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