Beoric
8, 8, I forget what is for
I meant give away the product to consumers, not give it away to WotC. I don't care if WotC ends up owning it, I get a tremendous amount of pleasure from Eberron and I'm happy to let them keep it.Well the fact they lock your creative work into the Guild forever sucks, but on the other hand the only way somebody could use IP like Forgotten Realms, The Third Imperium, etc. would have been by a negotiated license which would be costly and not trivial to get.
My view is that DriveThru's default community content license is a scam for content that original to the creator except for the system. However when there is a setting involved, then I view it as a good deal for people who want to publish something commercially but do it with the time and budget they have for a hobby.
But most of the companies involved don't want existing works (old or new) copied verbatim and lightly changed to put up. Hence why the answer to Beoric question is more complex then it you would think.
But if I have to jump through hoops to distribute a free product that includes a lot of baked-in advertising for other WotC products (it would include, for example, the locations for various events in published adventures, but you need to buy the adventure to use it), then I'm just not going to bother.