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Originally Posted by Nymrohd

The OGL spoiled as all big time. I may sound harsh in saying this, but consumers are nothing better than greedy brats; get them used to free ice cream and when you actually tell them they have to pay for your new cone they will throw a tantrum. It is an ugly generalization, but it holds more than a grain of truth.

Originally Posted by Merkuri

I feel like we've been spoiled by the 3e SRD. Why else would we think that copying big chunks out of a copyrighted book and making it available for free on the web is acceptable?

I'm not going to address the rest of these two posts but I did want to talk about this whole "spoiled" by the SRD thing. I think perhaps the draconian practices of TSR and the subsequent SRD may have put things in a slightly skewed light.

IME, most rpg's other than D&D that I play have tons of this type of stuff on the internet and aren't making the fans who created it take it down (hell, some of it is offered by the actual company for free.). Just a few off-hand I know about are... Exalted, it has charm cards out there...Star Wars SE has company made and fan made force cards on the internet... Contract Cards for Changeling and... you know what never mind. I guess in the end either you support a companies practices because they are what you agree with or you don't. But please this "spoiled brat" line of reasoning is insulting when it really has nothing to do with the SRD and everything with the value particular companies offer those who choose to support their products.

Here's a link where WW has all of it's Solar Exalted charm cards for download...free.

White Wolf Downloads

And here's a fan's blog who created and posted links to contract cards for Changeling the Lost... he even posted their location on White Wolf's forum...

Seeming Contracts and Goblin Contracts « Relborn’s Fantasy Blog

Hey, even WotC get's in on the action when its not D&D...

Force Power Cards

and fans have filled in the new ones from the released sourcebooks without C&D letters going out.

Also there's Mongoose Publishing that has gone the OGL route...with it's own SRD...

Main Page - MRQWiki

Perhaps it's not so much being spoiled as the fact that the value expected when one supports a game has changed both in the view of the consumer as well as in the view of many companies... and perhaps WotC needs to realize this. I'm not saying eveything should be free, but there are certain expectations (you know like a decent character sheet) that help facilitate gameplay and are not charged for by many game companies or C&D letters sent out, though most fan sheets I've seen use the D&D logo, name, etc.). I don't think it's being "spoiled" to expect this from the industry leader when everyone around them appears to be doing it.