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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5658721" data-attributes="member: 3400">I think you've got some good points but I would quibble a bit over the question of ongoing support. Support by another publisher that can't provide or use all of the materials the parent company could may not be enough for some people. For example, I like Pathfinder and I like Golarion, but I also really like Greyhawk. If Greyhawk were being supported currently, there would be a disconnect between the parent company's support and the company where I get my rules now. Plus, the PF stuff I buy can't incorporate any of the withheld IP from the parent game - no mind flayers, no kuo-toa, no slaad. To one person's eyes, that may all be small fry. But I'm not particularly comfortable with telling people they shouldn't feel that way. I've encountered far too many gamers, playing all sorts of games, far too hung up on canon and hierarchies of canonical sources to totally dismiss the issue. There's a pretty good feeling to being part of something big that progresses the underlying story of a campaign or game. Just ask fans of Legend of the Five Rings with the card tournaments they had that would affect the metaplot, or fans of Traveller and the real-time Travellers' News Service updates in JTAS or Challenges magazines. In the case of the TNS, metaplot elements of the 5th Frontier War and Shattered Imperium were revealed through that mechanism. And though I know the Shattered Imperium was fairly controversial, watching it unfold was pretty cool. I got a lot of ideas in campaign enrichment from the TNS.</blockquote>

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