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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3983492" data-attributes="member: 35788">I personally can't put a significant finger on it.  It is kind of a combination of things.  As a prior poster pointed out, WotC occasionally lifts from them (or mimics it functionaly).  So sometimes when I read their stuff I feel like I already have a mechanic in place for the stuff I like - or can approximate it rather well already.  This also ties in with the content of the next paragraph.I tend to be more interested in purchasing products from 3rd party publishers that take the game in different directions than WotC.  Hence, my statement in favor for Dreamscarred Press in my earlier post.  In my opinion, WotC put out an excellent book in the XPH but hasn't followed it up with any product that interested me.  So, I look for good psionic supplements.  I'm not as interested in 3rd party publishers who parallel WotC nearly as much as I am in ones that take an aspect and run with it tangentially.  Again, though, that is just my personal opinion and flavor.I'm also a DM who prefers to allow a book/supplement/pdf in its entirety or disallow it inits entirety.  A few exceptions exist (such as loving psionics but not the races in the XPH), but not many other exceptions exist in my case.  For me it is just easier to mentally say that "X, Y, and Z is allowed" rather than say "X is allowed but not all parts, Y is only allowed for certain pages, etc."  I've found that when I read Green Ronin's stuff that it contains too much content within each supplement that I wouldn't allow/want based on mechanics.  So, I'll freely confess that because of my preference for allowing/disallowing whole supplements I miss out on some good stuff.Of course, history has some things to do with itas well, as my post above indicated.  Usually if I pick up two or three supplements and I like them in total, then I like almost everything the publisher puts out, even if it is borderline for my games.  But if I have a bad experience with the first two or three, then I am less likely to like the rest of a publisher's work in general.  I'll admit that the first two or three Green Ronin stuff I heard about and looked up were not interesting to me based on mechanics and potential brokenness.  So, that has flavored my opinion. Again, though, that has more to do with me and my experience than anything else.Hope that helps explain my statement earlier.  I'm not trying to say that my opinion should be anyone else's, just explaining my stance for those two poster's who asked.EDIT: However, if there are any ardent fans of GR stuff that they know is generally accepted among everyone who reads them and doesn't contain much "questionable content" as assessed by their own experience and those around them ... I'll be happy to revise my opinion.  I am not above change! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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