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<blockquote data-quote="Ashrum the Black" data-source="post: 332600" data-attributes="member: 1585"><p>Okay my two cents. I own most of the WOTC books. I own several of the non-WOTC books, I tend to buy from companies and authors I know and trust. I've found that quality within those independent titles tends to vary wildly. So are very very good. Others tend to very very bad. So I'm more cautious of my purchases from these folk. This is not to say I think WOTC products are the greatest, but over all their product and thier editing tends to be head and shoulders above most of the independents. </p><p></p><p>So what can somebody wanting my money do to get it. Make a product that appeals. Something that fills a niche that WOTC never will. It doens't have to be specific like an entire book on monster x. But something that details a slightly broader topic with bits of fluff and crunch. And for goodness sakes, edit the book and catch the silly mistakes before it's released. Paragraphs shouldn't jump around the page and I shouldn't have to try and put them back together. The numbers should also make sense. Don't tell me to roll a die and then refence a differnet method in the text.</p><p></p><p>Enough rambling from me. </p><p><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ashrum the Black, post: 332600, member: 1585"] Okay my two cents. I own most of the WOTC books. I own several of the non-WOTC books, I tend to buy from companies and authors I know and trust. I've found that quality within those independent titles tends to vary wildly. So are very very good. Others tend to very very bad. So I'm more cautious of my purchases from these folk. This is not to say I think WOTC products are the greatest, but over all their product and thier editing tends to be head and shoulders above most of the independents. So what can somebody wanting my money do to get it. Make a product that appeals. Something that fills a niche that WOTC never will. It doens't have to be specific like an entire book on monster x. But something that details a slightly broader topic with bits of fluff and crunch. And for goodness sakes, edit the book and catch the silly mistakes before it's released. Paragraphs shouldn't jump around the page and I shouldn't have to try and put them back together. The numbers should also make sense. Don't tell me to roll a die and then refence a differnet method in the text. Enough rambling from me. :D [/QUOTE]
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