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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jim Hague" data-source="post: 2266649" data-attributes="member: 17550">Good question!  The answer is that the contract states that the work done under contract for AEG is property of AEG, with the exception of OGC stuff, which is quite a bit.  If you cruise over to the World's Largest Dungeon in Play thread, I've posted a 'cut' piece of material that's fully OGC.  It's rough stuff, even for a first-time writer, but...Given the success of the WLD - as much a result of a vocal and enthusiastic fanbase trying it out as the marketing or the product, which I think's fairly great, even ego aside - I think the argument that the original poster made is moot.  I can point at this one book out of literally hundreds of quality products out there and say it's got enough content for 2+ years of play.  It's a dungeon with story, an ecology that makes sense within that story, and on top of that it's modular.  I don't get one thin dime from promoting it, but I do so because I think it's a good product.  It might not be for everyone, and that pricetag can be a bit of a shock...but the number of adventures you get (assuming only 1 plotline per Region is followed), it comes out to something like 2.95 or so per adventure.  And you get color maps, monsters, NPCs...you can't beat that with a stick.  and that's just a single product.Nobody's throat is getting cut, slowly or otherwise.  And despite Joshua Dyal's assertations to the contrary, plenty of folks are still playing in the dungeon.  Roleplaying in it, even...and if you don't believe me, Joshua, go pick up WLD and look at Region H - not one I wrote, but one that is almost exclusively story and plot and NPC interaction.</blockquote>

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