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<blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4134833" data-attributes="member: 62992"><p>Voss; your points are well made.</p><p></p><p>In the past 3PPs accounted for a tiny share of D&D. But I am not sure if that is true anymore. Since the announcement of 4E, our community has become riven with dissent. I LOVE the ideas behind 4e but every board I have been on is the same; many many people questioning 4E philosophy, timing etc. So I think it would be a brave person who discounts all this. I guess I discount it all until my local game store owner told me how many people he knew were sticking with 3.5E or going with Paizo.</p><p></p><p>I also agree that I personally, didn't like many 3PP supplments, etc but MANY people did (some of these games appear to have had print runs in the 10s of thousands if various press releases can be believed).</p><p></p><p>What I am taking about is the soul of D&D. I think we are that soul and up until now, WoTC have paid tribute to us through the OGL. If that dies, I take it as a sign that the last influences of the people who saved D&D from the TSR days may finally have gone.</p><p></p><p>Once this happens, I fear for D&D. I don't believe that D&D has been in the hands of corporates since TSR and before. Mike Mearls and other designers came out of OGL and are gamers just like us. So was Monte and Skip and all the others.</p><p></p><p>I am concerned that Bill S and the others now answer to Hasbro in a way that is distinct from what has been the case in the past and I am just trying to mobilise people to act together for once.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ydars, post: 4134833, member: 62992"] Voss; your points are well made. In the past 3PPs accounted for a tiny share of D&D. But I am not sure if that is true anymore. Since the announcement of 4E, our community has become riven with dissent. I LOVE the ideas behind 4e but every board I have been on is the same; many many people questioning 4E philosophy, timing etc. So I think it would be a brave person who discounts all this. I guess I discount it all until my local game store owner told me how many people he knew were sticking with 3.5E or going with Paizo. I also agree that I personally, didn't like many 3PP supplments, etc but MANY people did (some of these games appear to have had print runs in the 10s of thousands if various press releases can be believed). What I am taking about is the soul of D&D. I think we are that soul and up until now, WoTC have paid tribute to us through the OGL. If that dies, I take it as a sign that the last influences of the people who saved D&D from the TSR days may finally have gone. Once this happens, I fear for D&D. I don't believe that D&D has been in the hands of corporates since TSR and before. Mike Mearls and other designers came out of OGL and are gamers just like us. So was Monte and Skip and all the others. I am concerned that Bill S and the others now answer to Hasbro in a way that is distinct from what has been the case in the past and I am just trying to mobilise people to act together for once. [/QUOTE]
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