>Complaining about how somebody decides to use
> something that you declared as open yourself seems a little strange. It's
> like saying "This is open, I just don't want people to actually use it
> unless they buy MY book".
>
Why is it unreasonable to expect another OG publisher to buy CC in order to
reference the monster stats for use in their own book (not that we won't all
be swapping product anyway)? Or even why is it unreasonable to desire fans
to buy the book to use the monsters rather than pull them off a website for
free.
To DM's point, yes it will happen, and yes any sane OG publishers had best
be prepared for it, but my issue is why would I ACTIVELY support websites
that seek to do this? By extension, why would other OG publishers actively
support it or go about creating such a site themselves?
> As for incentives for buying your product, how about having a product
worth
> buying? That Creature Compendium is a very nice hardback with
illustrations
> and other cool bits that you WON'T get in a text file that lists the OGC
> from that book. That should be reason enough for people to buy it.
Thanks, and yes perhaps they are, but I rather agree with Paul's point that
I'd rather have the whole car to sell rather than only rely on the body of
the car because the engine can be obtained free on the web. If the consumer
is only buying the car's body, then the purchase has less value to them.
Therefore why would OG publishers want to actively help put engines on the
web for free?
Steve
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