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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7733580" data-attributes="member: 7006">But isn't that the point?  That the DMs Guild is meant to be a place for hobbyists to make a little bit of money for products they would have made anyway, but NOT a place for actual design businesses to peddle their wares?  For actual for-profit design businesses they should be using things like the OGL, Kickstarter, and Patreon (like    [MENTION=1]Morrus[/MENTION] does) so that they have more control of how and what they produce for their business?  Including things like branding, logos, original art, cartography, what percentage of the money they bring in and the like?I mean I can get that there's no real "intermediate" step between DMs Guild, and Kickstarter/OGL.  A hobbyist gets the experience of trying publish using DMs Guild and tries to build a name for themselves... but the jump to then trying to run a Kickstarter in order to actually become a for-profit design house is a big one.  There's no place in the middle where "the best of the best" can go to receive the same amount of viewership that DMs Guild grants them, while not needing as many up-front "fans" or name-recognition in order to successfully pull off an OGL/KS.  So anything that keeps DMs Guild itself from becoming a more intermediate step for those writers is saddening and I can understand the frustration.  But I don't think that's really what DMs Guild was ever meant to be used for.But let's also be real here... if WotC was indeed worried about "the next Pathfinder", it's not from the DMs Guild pool of writers out there.  Specifically because they don't have the cache to even be able to run a Kickstarter yet, let alone build a business capable of competing with WotC.  Wizards would be looking at the 5E OGL businesses with actual full-blown publishing cred.... but the fact they actually opened 5E to the OGL in the first place tells us they aren't really concerned about those companies either.I think    [MENTION=16728]schnee[/MENTION] is probably closer the truth than any conspiracy theory that WotC is trying stomp out the uppity competition by not letting them brand their products.  No offense... but that's giving DMs Guild hobbyist publishers way more credit than they probably deserve.</blockquote>

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