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From: Lizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>At 07:27 AM 9/7/00 -0500, Justin Bacon wrote:
>>That being said, I know *exactly* how to write a game using only the D20
>>trademark license which will stand completely independent of the PHB.
>>(And, no, I'm not going to tell you how to do it.) Even with that being
>>true, however, I still suspect that my game will fuel sales of the PHB
>>(if it were ever to fall into the hands of someone who wasn't already
>>familiar with D&D).
>>
>Can anyone explain why the idea of 'helping WOTC sell more PHBs' is
>apparently so morally repugnant, if the method of doing so also lines the
>outside developers pockets as well?
Nope, can't understand that at all. But then, I am pro-WotC. ;)
>That is, if someone offers me 100.00, but notes that for every 100.00 I
>accept, he will ALSO give 50 dollars to Justin Bacon, I'd be an idiot to
>refuse the money on the ground you'd get some, too. It's not like he was
>originally offering me 150.00 and now I have to split it.
Sounds like a nice economic symbiosis to me.
Chris
www.IDrankWhat.org
www.coincidental.net
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