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Well, I am Canadian. The reason I know the percentages is that my wife is preparing a course package for the philosophy course she's teaching, and the university explained to her exactly how much material she could copy out of a particular source before they'd have to start paying for it.

Oh, well, thank goodness for that, then.

Yeah, exactly. It's just one more on a long chain of events that have made me say to myself, "hmm...I wonder what's going to happen with WotC?" I really have no idea how what the outlook is like there. They're very careful to never let any hints drop. But I haven't seen many good signs. The...

Well, if you want to be technical about it, piracy isn't theft. It's copyright infringement, which is a completely different branch of criminal law. According to the law, stealing means to take an object into your possession without ownership of the object being transferred to you. Making a...

Remember that D&D is a co-op game. You can't win unless everyone wins. Don't expect to do everything yourself, but also make sure that you can do something to support the party. If there are three strikers in the group already, ask before you bring in another striker. If everyone is fine...

They don't make money. They're not in it for the money. At the core, the reason they pirate stuff is the same reason your friends dump PDFs onto your jump drive. They have a copy, you need a copy, so they give you a copy. There's also a few other kinds of reasons, like fame in the warez...

I'm somewhere between #1 and #5. I feel that I should actually pay for the material I use. I'm also the sort who thinks that pirate PDFs are an excellent way to get people to read the books, which leads to using the books, which leads to new purchases. I've seen it happen plenty of times that...

No, it's more like, the bank has completely done away with internet banking because there were some cases of online identity theft.

This is a major problem with the corporate mentality, and one that spills out and affects society in general. The thing is, labour is inherently valuable. When you hire someone, you're increasing the worth of the company, because an employee is--practically by definition--worth more than he's...

While we're complaining about things we have absolutely no control over, I'd like to put in my grievances concerning the snow I got today. I plan to shake my fist angrily at the uncaring totality of nature. That'll show it.

I wonder if some people out there will take it as a challenge...

Well, they keep firing everyone who does a good job there. It's like Survivor: Seattle over there. They're trying to lose weight by cutting off limbs. And the strain on the company is really starting to show. I've been concerned about the state of affairs there since the whole debacle with...

Heck, if I were Scott, I'd be updating my resume. It would drive me absolutely batty to be placed into the position he is probably in. He seems to have been trying hard to support the game and support the community, and only missed out on the latest round of layoffs by chance. They'll get him...

For your reference: Before WotC started releasing its own PDFs for sale, pirated copies of books showed up within about a month of release. After WotC started releasing its own PDFs for sale, pirated copies of books showed up within about a month of release. I predict that after today, pirate...

Attention, customers. Since we caught a few people passing around PDFs that we had sold them (thereby demonstrating the effectiveness of the PDF watermarking system) we have decided that you're all a bunch of crooks. Since you guys like piracy so much, we've decided to arrange it so that the...

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If what you were looking for was advice on how to create a character, then yes, it would probably be reasonable to take character creation advice seriously.

Fair enough. Have you seen the 4E lava rules?

Well, it didn't actually. The numbers in the previous edition were fixed, and the numbers in this edition scale. That makes a big difference. As I said, most checks are normal DCs, which means that it's only special cases that aren't following the standard, normal DC progression. This is not...

I don't need to worry about doing this in 4e. It's done already, on a level-by-level basis, and it's (putatively) balanced against the expected character skill levels. As well, my point about the decrease in range of skill bonus between trained and untrained characters still stands. If I want...