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Excellent stuff! I am particularly interested in the classifications of the various entities. Sep, where do you take the names of these from? I mean things like "Sempiternal" - do you actively look for terms for these entities, or do you just happen to know them already by chance/from...

Thanks! :)

That's great news! I most certainly wouldn't want the campaign and the story to end - it's just too awesome. :)

Indeed, these are BGGGs (Big Good Good Guys)! Nevertheless, the Cheschnite forces seem to have the upper hand at the moment, surrounding the good guys with open gates and probably nigh-infinite demonic forces pouring through.

85th level caster!!! Fighting Nwm just got a whole lot scarier!

Wow, it is 16th of April, my birthday and Sep posts another great installment! What a wonderful birthday present! :) Thanks! :)

This. I have repeatedly stated that not making PDFs of new products may indeed be an anti-piracy measure, but other reasons are clearly behind the decision to pull existing PDFs. It is these other reasons and what they might be that I want to discuss in this thread.

Thanks for putting a ballpark figure on it and yes WotC most likely does have a better deal.

To shift this thread a bit more on topic... so, what do you think were the real reasons behind removing the extant PDFs (rather than ceasing the creation of new ones for new products)? Do you agree with any of those I listed in the original post?

Heh, looking at all the responses... mine is different. I use the normal Gregorian calendar without even changing the names of the months. It is a convenience thing - neither myself nor my players have to look up whether it is summer or winter - we know right away, because I use the real-life...

Wow, now I am really floored! That is impressive. I think WotC has to try to fight this by keeping a consistently high production quality including proofreading and indexing - if the pirated products turn out to be higher quality than the non-pirated ones than WotC will be in real trouble. For...

This is interesting. So are you saying that pirates, due to proofreading and correcting the typos, actually provided a superior product? That's actually a pretty shocking revelation to me and it is a major problem for WotC. I suppose on the positive side it may make them invest more money into...

This. I am inclined to agree with this, but my point is that this only applies to future products. Pulling existing PDFs off the market is not going to decrease the availability of pirated copies nor lead to decreases in quality of the pirated copies nor delay them (if they already exist they...

Not for the PDFs that already exist - all the costs of designing/creating these have already been paid and pulling them does not combat piracy, since they have already been leaked. At this point, the existing PDFs were essentially free money for WotC no matter how few people buy them. Heck, they...

The interview with the Mr. Leeds has not been particularly illuminating, but I want to give the man some credit for at least saying something/anything and some new things can be gleaned from it. Perhaps most importantly, the interview contains an admission that piracy was not the only thing...

BREAKING NEWS: It turns out the interview was supposed to contain ten questions, but the last question and answer somehow got lost. It is now incumbent upon me to rectify that by posting it here. 10. Because of the GSL delays and the terms of the new license, some companies have decided not...

More goodies - yay! :)

Hilarious, but I keep trying to rep you almost continuously over the last few days and it won't let me any more! ;)

OGL protects the outshoots of D&D, so it is doubtful that WotC could do that.