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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8880324" data-attributes="member: 5948">That's the most likely solution for my betting.  Unless either private feedback or public outrage convinces WotC to wind this back in a big way, the larger 3pps are more likely to come to some sort of private sweetheart arrangement with WotC (and to be fair it's hard to fault them for that - much as the proposed 1.1 is catastrophic for the broader industry, it's very easy for us to sit here at our keyboards and pontificate about how someone else should willingly put themselves in danger of bankruptcy and ruin to just have a shot at knocking this on the head via the legal system).  Places like KP and GR have decentish relationships with WotC anyway I think.  The small players, and anyone new trying to break in, will be the ones who really cop the pointy end of the pineapple here.  And even the bigger 3pps are mostly fairly small and operating on thin margins.  Green Ronin had to run a kickstarter just to get capital together to reprint out-of-stock Mutants and Masterminds material (including the core book!) quite recently.  That ain't the behaviour of a company that has a handy sooper-sekrit multimillion dollar fighting fund suitable for launching extended legal assaults on Hasbro.</blockquote>