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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 302069" data-attributes="member: 158">I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing it. Remember the cardinal rule: No offense to anyone meant, but 4 out of 5 of those 11,000 submissions will not merit serious consideration (the "80% of everything is crap" rule). Monte Cook once wrote a piece on this a while back: an idea is important, but it is by no means precious. The job of a writer is not to "bounce ideas": It is to take an idea, and create something useable with it, and FINISH the project.Now, if someone steals a writer's actual hard work, the result of a whole project or what have you, that's different. That's why those top souls are being paid serious bucks for that work.I'll tell you what the most possibly underhanded thing is that's going on here: WotC has just received 11,000 submissions from gamers around the world on what they would like to see in a new product. The potential to use such as a gigantic marketing survey is astronomical. This is not the result of a 5-minute survey sheet. This is the result of thousands of gamers and gamer groups and authors sitting down and REALLY thinking about what they think would go into a good product. That kind of heartfelt survey info doesn't come along very often.I don't call that underhanded - I call that smart. If I see the Setting of My Dreams (tm) come out of the distillation of that raw survey info, then I will be a happy camper (er, gamer.) This is not stealing samples of music - this is taking 1 page of concentrated thought about what gamers would like to see in a gaming supplement, and actually doing something with it.Good fortunes, and good gaming, Lucent.</blockquote>

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