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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gadget" data-source="post: 7899312" data-attributes="member: 23716">Well, I think part of the reason that would go along with "quality" in the original post is the bad reputation many 3pp got during the 3x glut.  Though I'm not sure how most new players would take on that particular view.  Even in the 'glut' days a lot of the stuff was printed and bought off of physical shelves.  It took quite a bit of publishing know how and connections to produce even a relatively poor print book.  I don't think the barrier to entry for third parties is quite that high in the digital age.  This can be both a good and a bad thing; as it allows more people's great ideas to get out there, but it also requires less investment and possibly less quality control.  Besides, there's so many "ideas" being put out there on the internet for free, the line has become very thin between do-it-yourself homebrew and 3pp.Case in point, the 3pp supplement mentioned earlier in the thread sounds like they were really trying to publish something with 3.x aesthetics for 5e, with a few numbers massaged.  With the surface similarities of of the two systems, such as feats, class names, spells and such, it can be tempting to just present warmed over 3.x stuff as 5e, and that can cause problems with some groups, as the balance and design goals are different in the two systems.</blockquote>