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You can find it disingenuous all you want, but you're doing so despite evidence to the contrary. You've been linked to studies earlier in this thread that indicate that file sharing has no effect on sales, and a few that indicate that it has a positive effect. You don't know what effect it...

Yes, technology has changed the game as it tends to do. We're not redefining theft as copyright infringement. Theft still exists in it's original intuitive form. The intuitive notion of theft DOES NOT work for copyright infringement. It's not "only important in novelty". And again I tell you...

Like others have pointed out, it's not redundant, it's just full of guidelines. Also like others I rarely open it at the table, it's usually used at prep time. I still think it's a good DMG. As far as ignoring the stuff in it, I ignore a lot in it. If it doesn't fit my game out it goes, but...

Again, it is a meaningful difference. It's the reason the distinction is made, it doesn't get more meaningful than that. If you steal a physical object from me you have deprived me of physical access to that book, where if you copy a file of mine you have not. That's a separate argument...

No, that's not the 'real' difference. The real difference is that in one you are necessarily depriving someone of the physical object and in the other the object remains where it is, in the same condition.

Which is exactly the sort of thing the studies I linked to are doing. Use any phrase you want, how about copyright holder. I'm not a fan of that one because it pre-supposes a right. "Publisher" probably works. It's not difficult to argue that the publisher's views aren't correct and it's...

That's fine, but when it comes to the legal issues, which is what I understood to be the topic here, it doesn't matter. No need to be facetious. You've not provided any evidence that it hurts publishers. You're begging the question. Study: P2P effect on legal music sales "not statistically...

I beg to differ. It doesn't matter what they believe. What matters is whether or not they are actually being harmed by file sharing. There is evidence to support the argument that they are not, in some cases there is mounting evidence to support that file sharing has had a positive result. IP...

What the law chooses to call it is EXACTLY here AND there. Once you step away from the legal definitions you're forwarding nothing more than opinion. Personally, I'm comfortable with talking about whether or not he was wrong legally and even whether or not it should be wrong. I'm not so much...

Nope. It's 100% indicative of file sharing taking place, that is all. Whether that file sharing resulted in more, less, or the same amount of sales for WotC. There are studies that indicate that file sharing has no impact on sales and some that indicate that it has a positive impact. The...

I'd say it's very polite. He's providing valuable market information for free :) Copyright infringement in the digital age is a reality, it's not going to change, it's time the rules change. This whole endeavor by WotC is a complete failure as well as being irrational. They're not going to...

It's not just unknown, the argument can be made that it's unknowable. However, there is one aspect of this whole fiasco that is certain: The only thing that absolutely, 100%, resulted in lost sales for WotC was the removal of the PDFs for purchase.

Ok I'm curious... other games don't hire professionals? Or they're not real professionals?

That's common in most MMORPGs. See mana/tp/other burn parties in FFXI for an (extreme) example. That same game is an example of taking on challenges suited to the party. A party with a missing, or ineffective, healer will need to tackle mobs of different numbers, types, and strengths.

You live with it being slow. Or you speed it up artificially. We took 9 months to finish KotS... nine months on a crappy adventure and I realized I intensely disliked it halfway through. Currently we're meeting every three weeks, it might as well be monthly. A few things I'm doing: a) I'm...

All I want is a (properly) documented API to their data that I can use to legally produce tools from. Open it up WotC, let us pay for the data. You'll be amazed at the work 3rd parties will do on your behalf, all of them distributing tools that require DDI accounts to work. It will take...

Grab a Raymond Smullyan book and pick one. Do a little adaptation, add some physical elements maybe and you're good to go.

Yes, patently false. $500 is nothing, put a digital table out that can run a VTT for that price and they'd sell like gangbusters. Quadruple the price, it'd still sell like mad. The only barrier now is that you have to assemble it yourself, or find someone to do it for you. It's neither...

That is patently false. Multi-touch tables are being home-brewed, I'm gathering components for one right now. The reason you don't see it happening is because you are uninformed, not because it's impractical. For less than $500 you can put together the core of a full multi-touch table. Add a...

Difficulties? I find them terribly unwieldy, limiting, and overall a pain in the ass to use :) The only time I use them now is for running something that explicitly uses them (like Dungeon Delve). I'm not thrilled about that but it's acceptable for short delve like adventures. I use them two...