- No more PDFs from WotC? This from RPGNow: "Wizards of the Coast has instructed us to suspend all sales and downloads of Wizards of the Coast titles. Unfortunately, this includes offering download access to previously purchased Wizards of the Coast titles. We are in discussions with Wizards about their decision to change their approach to digital sales of their titles and will post more information as we have it."
- Same Situation with Paizo's Store: "You have until the end of today to buy any PDFs you might want. Also, you will want to make sure you download any PDFs that you have already purchased. We will have a more formal announcement being sent out to all our customers once it is approved by Wizards of the Coast."
- Going back to this older press release from WotC: "In conjunction with the Retailer Rewards program, Wizards of the Coast will also release a new Internet Sales Policy on April 6. The new policy will have clear guidelines for online sales of Wizards’ product, and requires that retailers register with Wizards by signing an Authorized Internet Dealer Agreement." The two are clearly connected, although we can only speculate as to how. The two main speculative theories at the moment are (a) WotC wants to sell the PDFs online on their own site; or (b) RPGNow was unwilling or unable to accomodate the new Internet Sales Policy.
- WotC comments on the reasons "Hey all. I wanted to step in and shine a mote of light on the subject. First off, this cesation of PDF sales has absolutely nothing to do with the Internet Sales Policy. I know it's the 6th of April and I can definitely see how the two would appear linked, but the truth is, this is a completely seperate matter.
Unfortunately, due to recent findings of illegal copying and online distribution (piracy) of our products, Wizards of the Coast has decided to cease the sales of online PDFs. We are exploring other options for digitial distribution of our content and as soon as we have any more information I'll get it to you."
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- Wizards of the Coast Sues Eight For Copyright Infringement "Wizards of the Coast LLC today filed three lawsuits in US
District Court for the Western District of Washington against eight individuals, including named defendants located in the United States, Poland and the Philippines, for copyright infringement of its recently-released Dungeons & Dragons® Player¹s Handbook® 2. The lawsuits allege that the defendants illegally distributed the Player¹s Handbook 2 via free file-sharing websites and that these illicit uploads resulted in a substantial number of lost sales and lost revenue to Wizards of the Coast.
"Violations of our copyrights and piracy of our products hurt not only Wizards of the Coast¹s financial health but also the health of whole gaming community including retailers and players,² said Greg Leeds, President of Wizards of the Coast. ³We have brought these suits to stop the illegal activities of these defendants, and to deter future unauthorized and unlawful file-sharing."
The complaint alleges, among other things, that one or more of the defendants purchased digital copies of Player¹s Handbook 2 and then illegally posted the copies onto popular file-sharing sites for free access and download by the general public."
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- New OGL "Monday Monster" Kobold Quarterly continues its ongoing series of new OGL monsters with the Necrotic Tick. This Diminutive villain is sure to put some scare back into CR1!
- The Glass Balcony and the Leafless Wood Maps on sale now Jonathan Roberts cartographer, for Wrath of the River King and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents “The Glass Balcony” and "The Leafless Wood". These multi-page PDFs allow you to print out the battlemaps at a 1 inch=1 square scale as a letter-format map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version.
- DCC #61: Citadel of the Corruptor Now In Stores [FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Dungeon Crawl Classics #61: Citadel of the Corruptor is now in stores! Look for this level 7-9 adventure at your favorite game store this coming week.[/FONT]
- [FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Warhorn.net Moves Due to DNS issues, Warhorn.net has moved to Warhorn,org. [/FONT]Warhorn is a free online resource that many conventions, game days and game stores across the world use to organize gaming events.
- Studio Companion: Dinosaurs This stock art features 23 digitally enhanced, painted images of mysterious locales. Each image is a 300 .dpi royalty-free for your commercial and/or non-commercial projects.
- City Streets: Zinia's Spa Are the PCs worn out from adventuring? Perhaps it is time to visit Zinia's Spa for a relaxing massage or a healing mudbath!
- Official D&D Updates:
- April and Beyond Here's to April, and April Fool's Day: with a look at D&D Minis, Monster Manual 2, tomes, green slime, and the Raven Queen!
- Excerpts: Grave Caller In today’s Arcane Power preview, we introduce a new paragon path for the bard: the Grave Caller!
- Domains and Other Divine Concepts Check out some of the great divine domains from the upcoming Divine Power book! But first, there's news of D&D Game Day and a tantalizing tidbit from James Wyatt about Eberron and one of the planes.
[*] Hybrid Characters Fresh from the development pit comes a new rules concept currently scheduled to appear next year in Player's Handbook 3. Hybrid characters take elements of two classes and blend them far more thoroughly than the multiclass system.
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