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Actually, sales of out of print materials can create interest in reprints. Downlifted copies depress that interest. A creator shouldn't have to worry about making money on a particular property at any given time. Think about the comic book industry. For most of its history old issues of most...

I'd have liked to see the article go into detail on who the comparision group was. It isn't clear if the group included people with no interest in music at all, let alone downloading it. I'm in my thirties and I have a lot of friend that regularly use the internet and who haven't been...

Yes, WOTC is a company that basically sells ideas. Protecting their intellectual property really does qualify as more important stuff.

Except, it sounds like pirating copies of the rules is what that site did. They reprinted copyrighted material. It isn't any different that broadcasting only the last quarter of the Superbowl without the NFL's permission. As far as the moral issue? I feel that creators should be able to...

"Spell" in the 3rd Edition PHB really drives home how much of the old PHB's were focused on clerics/wizards/sorcerers abilities.

By that rational it would be absurd to call Ford, GM, Chrysler and what seems like most of the Banking System businesses. Regardless, what the site was doing would have been problematic whether it was being run by Wal-Mart or Amnesty International. Which is fine because it means we don't have...

It seems that a lot of people are looking at the question through the lens of "how much damage does the Wizard directly do". It ignores the damage to the PCs that the Wizard's spells can prevent or the extra damage done by other classes that is available because the Wizard set the situation up.

It appears they've been soliciting donations in lieu of publishing books. The "2009 State of Palladium Books" is keeping in the PB tradition of promising more than it will deliver. Kevin lists about 22 books slated to release next year. If history is any guide, the reality will be four, maybe...

I can't have been the only one that needed minis to keep track of where everyone was relative to everyone else, even in games like AD&D.

If you have the time or the inclination, buying boosters by the case at discounted prices and selling or trading the unwanted minis was how I built up my DDM collection. Now I just find it easier to buy complete sets. As others have said, buying commons from singles sites is also a good route...

So your thesis is that distributors and game stores as a group are massively incompetent when it comes to ordering product? It is a wonder the hobby has lasted all these years.

If Necromancer's assessment that the OGL market has dried up is accurate, any 3rd party that relied mainly on D20 products painted themselves into a corner well before the GSL was revealed. They assumed that either WOTC would never make a new edition, or WOTC would OGL the new edition, or that...

What is the saying? "No matter what you do, there is someone who always knew you would."

I didn't know eggs could fly.

What if you want to run an undead heavy campaign? What if you want to have a lot of outdoor encounters? 4th Edition does a better job of making it easy to set up adventures and campaigns without having to do things like worry whether a character will get their time in the spotlight or if a...

I must be missing what makes the DM Campaign Record, as described, edition specific or even game specific. I also wonder about the Character Codex. 4E doesn't even have cohorts yet. It sounds like they are generic products and the mention of 4th edition is just a marketing strategy.

Wouldn't it be funny if it was Aaron "Nodwick" Williams' response card?

The way that things are presented in 4E definately pushes things into later books. A style that results in thirteen pages of the Fighter Class and three pages on Orcs is going to force some cuts for the page count. What is in the core books seems very complete, but also completely ignores...

Thanks for making those counters, very cool.

The third edition character sheets released in 2000 were about the same page count for the exact same price. WOTC isn't exactly hiding the downloadable character sheet, plus there are many fan made character sheets. I have to believe that most of the people who choose to buy the character...