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Hobbits / Not Nice IIRC (and I might not), Tolkein's estate sued over use of the term, Hobbit. After that, Gygax changed the term to Halfling. Granted, Hobbit was used in conjunction with a description largely matching that of Tolkein's Hobbit, but the operative point here is that all that...

You're getting opposing arguments because you're starting them. Your business decisions are your's to make as you see fit, and I'm neither qualified nor informed enough to make them for you. As I've stated several times, the article (which is the subject of this thread) is not designed to make a...

Your Counter-productive Post dmccoy1693, I don't know why your're so hostile towards anyone with an opposing view, but when you react emotionally, you're bound to make mistakes. Here are two examples. First, you speak as if I should have known that "not nice" doesn't actually mean "not nice,"...

Can you point me to a good link on "adaptations" and "passing off" under UK law? Thanks. EDIT: Never mind. I found the a decent site to get me started (http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/).

Inferences You appear to be reading more into what I'm saying, which is probably not your fault. It's a short article. Not really. If someone were to create an adventure that take a lot of material from, for example, the Eberron campaign setting, that would be a derivative work if it had any...

Clarifications I’m the author, and I’d like to clarify a few things. 1. The conclusion of the article was simply this: You can publish 4e material outside the GSL without resorting to legal trickery due to the very nature of copyright law. 2. I’m fully aware of the OGL. I left it out...

Time to Move on Because I have better things to do. As a native East Coaster, I love arguing, so I couldn't resist, but I've spent too much time on this thread already. :-)

More False Arguments Irrelevant. The OGL forces a 3PP market on other 3PPs. These additional steps are best viewed as making the best of a bad situation. If you have to have a 3PP market, you might as well develop it, and if you can convince people you're doing it out of the goodness of your...

False Arguments This is what I said (and you quoted!). Making false arguments puts you outside the scope of fair and honest debate. The "jackhole" comment *clearly* was not a quote or paraphrase of that particular letter but rather my observations of the industry as a whole. Quoting everyone...

Market Destruction? How can you say the 3PP market was destroyed (or was even attacked)? The GSL's existence runs contrary to that claim. All they did was pull back on it (from what they had in 3.5), which was probably a smart decision. As for the online CB, though, it's clear that there is...

You're almost certainly naive, but I can't prove it, although the terms of the 3.5 license back up my view, not yours. We'll probably never know what Paizo would do if they created their own gaming system because Paizo probably never will during out lifetimes. Until they do, Paizo is still...

That's not an exception. It's a false comparison. You argue as if Paizo is in WotC's position. They aren't. WotC creation is the base of Paizo's success. They're in a different market position, and if it weren't for the license on which they rely to create Pathfinder, they probably wouldn't be...

Manipulation? In any other industry, this wouldn't be seen as "manipulation," but rather "business." Figuratively speaking, you're saying that allowing third parties to create Burger King franchises is good for the Burger King brand. That's true; it is. Improved visibility is always a good...

SLAPP Legislation The so-called "American rule" dictates that everyone pay their own court costs, win or lose. Attorneys fees and costs are exclusively the right of a judge to award as punishment for improper behavior, an example of which being the filing a frivolous lawsuit. There has been...

Matt James asked me to contribute to this thread. I’m not sure my legal expertise is entirely on point, so I’ll save most of my views for a future article on loremaster.org, where I have a series of articles called Protection from Chaos. However, considering how badly some of you are going off...

Not an Edition War Thread This is not intended to be an edition war thread. Please refrain from that. All I want is for the Pathfinder loyalists that believed 3.5 had a limited sweet spot to answer honestly whether Pathfinder has expanded it. For those that have, or eventually will, thanks.

FGD = Perfection I get your point, but FGD is a great answer. Sometimes I want to smack people in the head and yell, "It's just a game!" If you're playing the FGD, it's hard not to remember that fact.

I haven't played Pathfinder and am curious whether they've expanded the sweet spot for v.3.5. Although this is something of a subjective topic, many agree that 3.5 has a sweet spot between 4th and 12th level, with 3.5 breaking down to an extent outside that range. For those that agree, do you...

S3 Expedition to the Barrier Peaks: -- Thinking outside the box -- Mixing two classic genres I loved as a kid -- Not enough vegeopygmies to ruin it for me I don't expect everyone to share my opinion, of course. This is simply the module that produced the most excitement for me when I got a...

Wow! I can't wait for this one. I took a 24-year hiatus from the game, so all of my early memories of D&D are 1st edition. I'd love to see this followed up with rewrites of S2 (White Plume) and S3 (Barrier Peaks) as well, although I doubt we'd see those as retail store releases even if they...