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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 1819826" data-attributes="member: 158">Think about it a second, and it has a very rational explanation: How many copies of Modern Menace manual are sold, versus MM2 or FF? How many copies of UA sold versus the versus Eberron or FR? The d20 Modern itself was not assured to be a hit when it was first released, and in order to promote its use, it needed to have a guaranteed base of people trying it out. How much more guaranteed are you going to get that people will at least look at a product, than if it's free?On top of that, you have the difference in levels of support. With D&D, WotC is guaranteed they will support it wholeheartedly. With Modern, they can't devote as many resources to it, so the fans are the ones who need to support it most; give the fans the tools, and they will take over, and popularize it on their own. If we saw a dramatic upswing in Modern and Future purchases, I firmly believe you'd see a dramtic DECREASE in Modern OGC released by WotC.This logic even holds for the 3.5 books; if you want people making 3.5 compatible versions of your stuff, you'd BETTER make sure they can get their hands on the rules.</blockquote>