Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8483589" data-attributes="member: 86653">Because the OSR crowd isn't limited by needing to make millions from each and every single book they produce. The OSR can make niche products that only cater to a few hundred or a few thousand people. They don't have to knock it out of the park with every at bat. They can experiment and try different things without the pressure to sell hundred of thousands of copies of every book. They can produce what they want when they want on their time table. WotC has a corporate overlord and has a printing schedule to keep up. They can't afford to try weird things. It would cost them too much money if they flopped.You're comparing those two products to the whole of 3PPs and claiming that those two books are more creative than anything and everything produced by the whole of the 3PPs? That's a wildly unsupportable claim.If you're an OSR fan, and an OSR creator, then you know that the OSR has far more going for it than simply "edgy".Which is why I mentioned going outside of D&D in my post. And yes, 3PP, the OSR crowd, people using the OGL and the SRD have full creative control over their products. Again, as an OSR creator you should know that. They can do whatever they want. If choose to "limit" themselves to using those licenses, it's a choice they can make...and a lot of people use those licenses, shred the rules, repackage, and repurpose them to do...well, anything they want.</blockquote>

Verification