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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DammitVictor" data-source="post: 9143406" data-attributes="member: 6750908">I do not want a market leader. I don't want to replace a feral 900 pound gorilla with a supposedly friendly 800 gorilla.What I want is four or five hungry 400 pound gorillas, in a bathroom stall, with one switchblade knife between them.Given my druthers, the entire D&D brand would be owned by a contractually private holding company which itself would be owned by an independent WotC, Paizo, Kobold, Rogue Genius, Green Ronin, Legendary Games, EN Publishing, et al-- basically every company founded by ex-WotC staffers plus some of the big OSR peepaleeps-- with new owner-partners admitted by supermajority invitation only. Membership entitles stakeholders to publish their own official D&D material with internal rules for differentiating their products, and control- and profit-sharing over closed license D&D-branded merchandise, with open license material governed by each stakeholder's use of open licenses.Rest of the industry is fine as it is, and would be much better off under this arrangement.Far as actual games? My holy trinity is D&D, Barbarians of Lemuria, and Cortex Prime but I don't want my favorite games to be on top of the heap; I just want the top of the heap to be a constant churn. I don't want D&D to be the #1 game anymore-- I want it to be eight of the top ten, year after year, but the order is always different depending on whom you ask and when.</blockquote>

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