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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 5327761" data-attributes="member: 18280">(Shrug)So?I still bought the Monster Manual.  Everyone I know who played the game bought the Monster Manual.  From my understanding, the Monster Manual sold well.It was when WotC greenlighted the Tome of Horrors, and then put out competing stats for some of the same monsters, that problems began.  Not only was ToH truer to the orignals, but it was OGC, so that others could use them.  Had WotC put out official OGC versions, it would probably have beaten the ToH....but as things stood, ToH became the single most useful 3pp book out there!  (IMHO of course)Likewise, there were tons of environmental books before WotC jumped into the arena, some of them were much better than the WotC books, and they had OGC so that other 3pp could build off of them.  Had there been official OGC -- had WotC even simply made official the OGC they thought best -- I feel certain those books would have sold better.I can't speak for anyone else, but I know that a major factor in 3pp purchases for me was the % of OGC that I could rework, and a major factor in my decision to bypass several WotC offerings was the lack of same.RC</blockquote>