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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 1870339" data-attributes="member: 957">If someone produces OGC, they have already granted permission for it to be printed, so long as the OGL is obeyed.It isn't a matter of simply being legal, it is fully authorized by the publisher.It isn't even slightly an exploitation to do that which you have explicit permission to do.Now, it may be a really nice gesture to choose to NOT do it.  But not doing a nice gesture is simply neutral.  I can walk up to a game producer and hand them a $100 donation for doing such cool stuff.  That would also be a nice gesture.  But there is nothing wrong with not doing that nice gesture.As to crashing the market, I don't buy that for a minute.  Heck, there is WotC stuff all over the web that is flat out illegal.  But they don't stop.  And if you want to claim that this is because WotC is big, there is Green Ronin and even ENWorld stuff out there as well.  I'm certain this does some finite damage to those companies.  But that illegal stuff isn't enough to push them out.  I certainly don't believe that legal reproduction would do what piracy doesn't.  (That's not to say that it won't make a nice excuse for companies that go under anyway....)Further, I have to shift through a ton of stuff already to see what I want to spend my gaming budget on.  In the non-real scenario that some companies bailed, I just have that much less I ended up not getting.  And despite the theory of the D20 glut, there still seems to be 3 new companies for every 2 that go under.  And the list of semi-famous to very famous free-lancers is only growing.  So if anyone does bail, well, "Next."We've had OGL for 5 years now.  When is the reproduction collapse going to start?  Why didn't it start 54 months ago?As for me personally, the last OGL product I bought was the Cavalier's Handbook (Green Ronin, very disappointed in the Order rules, but the rest really rocked and I strongly recommend it).  Anyway, if it fell in a fire I'd pay for another print copy gladly before I downloaded some text file of just the OGL stuff.</blockquote>

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