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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 2389419" data-attributes="member: 87">Yep, I do believe this is candidate for dumb move of the year award.WotC already has two organized play structures - the DCI and the RPGA. The RPGA they inherited from TSR and has been generally turned over to Ryan Dancey. The DCI however does have a structured system for sanctioned events. However, even those events run with a profit sharing structure with the tournament organizers.White Wolf would be best served by trying to follow the path of the DCI and offering sanctioned events as a new thing rather than trying to force every pay to play event to pay them a fee.  By taking that route they can set a premium on the sanctioned events - have legal ground to stand on, and most importantly they wouldn't come off looking like an ogre.The only thing this move will net them is bad press.EDIT: It should be noted that the DCI has all but hedged out non-sanctioned events due to the high prizes they are able to offer (indeed, they have "professional players", a phenomena not seen and likely to never be seen in RPG's) participants. While non-sanctioned events do occur, they are the minority and don't get much attention.</blockquote>