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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8904450" data-attributes="member: 19857">Thing is, they're so big they don't actually have to make good product. Mediocre product will sell just fine at the levels they operate at. Corporations do it all of the time.And the folks they're targeting aren't even competition in the classic sense of the word. Most folks who buy 3pp are also buying D&D. In fact that's part of the point of the OGL in the first place - that it's actually not damaging for D&D to exist in a symbiotic relationship with companies who create products that support your game.And even the companies that make entirely new derivative games - like Pathfinder - keep people in the tabletop scene and the number of folks who are only buying their products and NOT also buying D&D books is likely a rounding error at the number of units that Wizards is selling. The idea that Wizards has anything to actually gain by eliminating those companies would be a hilarious joke if it weren't for the fact that the execs in charge seem to actually think they're somehow losing money through this relationship.</blockquote>