Recent content by The Sigil

The problem is that the law doesn't move at the speed of technology. Lending libraries grew out of the "Doctrine of First Sale" which basically says once I have legally purchased a copy of a book (or other piece of art), I have the right to dispose of that copy in any way I please (except...

Agreed. Those laws could stand to be adjusted. But that is the timeline we'd both LIKE to live in. We have to deal with the timeline we DO live in where the laws have not yet been adjusted.

I don't disagree with you on how things SHOULD work. But the holy grail for business is "subscription model" (licensing) rather than "one shot sale" because it means (in theory) you work once then make money forever. Book publishers are doing the same thing. Since book publishers hold...

Except that's not how COPYRIGHT works. It's literally there in the name... the right to make copies. Buying a copy of a digital book does not give me the right to make copies of that book (with certain well-defined exceptions such as the right to create a backup copy for personal use, but that...

Perhaps this is kind of a tangent, but it has been my experience that in general, we seem to have some sort of sense when WE are the ones producing an item that "the economic value of an item should be tied to the amount of labor that went into producing it, including the sunk cost labor...

I'm no mod, this thread looks to me to be off to a bad start. So I'll try to get it off to a tangent. I've heard of Zweihander before but have never tried the system. Can you give me a brief summary of its strengths and weaknesses and whether the rules make it lean more toward a "tactical" or...

No, I'm not suggesting that we remove experienced players that enjoy many pages of rules. The particular question (among several asked by the OP) that I was attempting to answer was, "What would make it easier for new players to get into the hobby?" What experienced players want/need is mostly...

I don't dispute these are good examples of "reasonable causes of delay." I've rarely been annoyed at the CREATORS when delays like this have been announced, but I have been annoyed at the SITUATION (other causes of delay, such as, "I didn't realize X would take so much time" have annoyed me, but...

So full transparency - my experience has been that I eventually got most (not all) of the stuff I backed, but only one was delivered in what I would consider a timely manner (the study quoted used "within 6 months of the promised date" as their cutoff, which I think is fair).... all of the...

Fair. But I would counter that since D&D is the largest player in the space, D&D can be used as a proxy to show what the "average" introductory RPG experience is like - I am not going to try to average the page count of every single PHB-equivalent in the RPG space because someone would object to...

It seems we have different experiences. The plural of "anecdotes" is not "data" (for either one of us). I suspect that there are statistical analyses out there that will tell me exactly what percentage of Kickstarter products are delivered, and of those how many are delivered in a timely manner...

Yes, the boycott is about a future product and future sales... but this future product is based on a product that was created in the past that some are upset about not because of the past product itself or its producer, but because copyright ownership of the past product has changed hands, and...

So much this. While I think a little prep can be okay ("here are four possible pregenerated characters, roll to decide which one you will use"), it had better be "5 minutes or less." I think the biggest barrier to new folks discovering RPGs is that character creation has become completely...

I have sufficient knowledge of neither Bob I nor Bob II to comment directly on either's political views or their perceived moral rectitude or turpitude. From what I can gather on this thread, the consensus seems to be that most commenters seem to be less than thrilled with Bob II's views...

1e - Initiative Rules - declaration of intent before actions are resolved... which means Weapon Speed and Casting times for spells affect your initiative roll (EDIT: and yes, "roll low is good" but it does kind of conflict with my 3e choice of the d20 mechanic where higher is always better) -...