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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HalWhitewyrm" data-source="post: 2532685" data-attributes="member: 4046">Something tells me to stay out of this thread, but here I go nonetheless...For the most part, yes, that is my case. It's not a general blanket edict as I just purchased d20 Apocalypse last week and I'm loving it, but more often than not, I'll just look at them at the store and end up leaving them there unless they absolutely blow me away. There's a reason I don't own Iron Heroes yet, though that is likely to change very soon, and it's a testament to Erik Mona's great ideas and hard work that I now purchase Dragon and Dungeon every so often whereas I just didn't before.I don't like this attitude I've faced where you get blasted if you buy products based primarily on their OGC and declaration. It's my way of buying stuff, no one call tell me it's wrong, period, and it's as valid a reason to buy a product as any other. It sometimes means that I will consciously pass on a product I may have bought years ago, but that happens anyway. I don't like restrictive and/or convoluted OGC declarations and I vote with my wallet in those cases. For that same reason I make sure that my products appeal to those who purchase like me, so that it has as much value as possible. In this industry, publishers are also gamers, so there is little distinction to me when I am designing my products.I have friends who just buy whatever as long as it helps their game, and that's cool and great for them because, like Kushner pointed out above, they are just some guys playing every week in a make-believe land and legalities are irrelevant to their pursuit, but although I am part of that group, I also have other interests in mind that regulate what I buy and what I don't. You don't see me blasting my friends for buying things indiscriminately, though they still do tease me from time to time (they're my friends, so they are allowed).I've loved the OGL since it first saw the light of day, before I decided to start using it to write game stuff, and I love it more now than ever. Just please don't blast me for rewarding publishers whose products exhalt the OGL more than others.All that said, I just placed my order for Iron Heroes.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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