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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6685219" data-attributes="member: 37579">The catch is, ENWorld and the message board community are totally not representative. Most gamers are not as dedicated as us. Most are casual people who just want to show up and play. Maybe a quarter of people who read ENWord the forums are registered and maybe a quarter of total visitors actually read the forums. And, of course, not every D&D player checks out ENWorld.Thinking we represent the average - just because we're the average here - is a logical trap. We don't. Even among geeks and nerds we're the freaky outsiders. That said, is the average ENWorld poster, interested in becoming a 3rd Party Publisher? I count 38 unique posters in this thread in the past month. Since it started that number could be higher, but not *that* much since there's a lot of the same people again and again. There are 172,540 registered users in ENWorld. So the past month, 0.022% of ENWorld posters replied to this thread. Assuming three-quarters were pro-OGL, that's 0.017%. And not everyone who's pro-OGL wants to be a publisher. Many just want to buy the books. Many just want to contribute. Only a handful are likely interested in actually trying to publish. Because that's an eff-tonne of work. Standards are pretty high now. It's a good way to lose money.</blockquote>