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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Committed Hero" data-source="post: 3366209" data-attributes="member: 15341">I'm fine with a process for requiring approval, but charging for this "service" sticks out like a sore thumb in the Open Gaming era.  Even Hasbro hasn't stooped to this level when it's encountered products that were distasteful in its eyes.  Plus GR set a limit of six titles a year per publisher, which can cap the number of submissions they have to consider.Given the amount of True20 products available from third parties, I think the market has spoken for itself.  Consider their choice:  make a d20 product for free and appeal to a conservative 75% of the d20 buying public, or pay for the right to restrict yourself to about 10%?  Even the companies with a free pass have taken forever to release things!Now consider that the license is yearly - does this mean that pdf products must go off the market once the license ends?  So a publisher must choose between paying the $100 a year in the hopes that a release will still attract buyers 12 months out, or give up on their stuff entirely.  How long a shelf life does a pdf product have?  And the print license is $1000 a year!  It would have made more sense to charge a listing fee to have a pdf appear at GR's True20 store or something - then at least publishers are getting some other tangible benefit than the use of the True20 logo.I agree with everyone that True20 is good enough to deserve a chance.  I wouldn't rail against the fee if I didn't feel strongly about it.  It would be great to see it thrive, but I can't help but feel that GR has hurt it's chances by attaching a price tag.</blockquote>

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