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Well, the question in this particular instance is really who gets to decide what's best promoting the progress of the useful arts, which in this case, means best facilitating the creation and distribution of books. There are really only two positions on this that make sense. 1. Its best to...

Umm. That was dannyalcatraz who said that, not me. When you were constructing your quote blocks, you got us mixed up.

Hmm. Impressive showing by Agricola and Le Havre. Its impressive that expensive, large box games are doing that well. Unless maybe the chart is weighted for profitability rather than sales by unit?

The problem here is that the burden proof isn't philosphical certainty, its whether people believe your alternate explanation. Basically, to advance those arguments the defendants would have to walk into the courtroom, tell the judge or jury that they didn't upload the documents, that someone...

Not if using your skill in that way requires a power swap feat.

I voted "no," though I don't strictly believe it. I do believe that clerics and paladins should be kept from overlapping, and this is one way to help with that. I don't think its the only way or a necessary way, but I think its one possible way.

For what its worth, I downloaded a torrent of Eclipse Phase. It contains a creative commons explanation page attached to the torrent, purportedly from Posthuman Studios (it proclaims that its text is copyrighted by Posthuman). It contains the details from their webpage about their licensing...

I think that some of what gets lost in these discussions is that when you guys were kids who played RPGs, you were HUGE NERDS. So don't ask what kids collectively are up to today. Obviously they aren't spending all day reading books and imagining things for their later RPG sessions. Only...

Yep. You'll agree with me, at least on the nature of the law if not on its purpose or utility. Did you know that you can even copyright arrangements and organizations of uncopyrightable material? The copyright can be held in the organization rather than the underlying items organized...

1. I didn't stat out enemies completely. I just set benchmarks for AC, saves, attack, and damage. I leave the rest out. After all, you don't usually need most of it. Lets say that your players drain 6 points of strength from an enemy. You don't need to know its total strength score unless...

You might be better off playing a more rules-light game for a while. Something that encourages ad libbed roleplaying instead of understanding game mechanics. Feng Shui might be a good choice. A rules light game has a few advantages. First, it will be easier on new players, both in terms...

"Approve" isn't really the right word. Posthuman has the right to make whatever call they think is best. I don't view it as any different than deciding to sell your product cheaply in pdf form, or to sell it only in brick and mortar stores while setting a price floor, or any of the other...

See, that's a great example of my 5th point then. You don't think its copyrightable, but I think that since copyright doesn't always function on single phrases taken in isolation, the collection of ranger power names, in context, might be. And that's leaving out the aesthetic choices inherent...

1. Scrubbing the 4e rules of protectable material is probably a lot harder than most people think. Remember, the part that can't be copyrighted is the process- not the aesthetic names and labels and flavor text that make that process translate into an RPG. 2. As a result, no one's bothered to...

Well, that or they'll use a more restrictive license next time. I don't intend to feel any guilt. I'm sure that they were smart enough to understand the incredibly obvious implications of the Creative Commons license they selected. I stand firmly in the "take advantage of the licenses we're...

Thanks for the answer. I didn't see that section. It is somewhat annoying that the book's contents are almost all creative commons, but that the art randomly isn't. But I assume that they're not really hoping that people will create digital copies to trade rather than purchase the rules, and...

Creative Commons Licenses That's the link to the summary of the various CC licenses. All six of them include the right "To Share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work." They then include various restrictions, such as Attribution, or Non Commercial, or Share Alike, or No Derivative...

I'm not sure how he's accomplishing that with an 18th level single classed fighter- its probably multiclassed in some way. But there are a few other feats, like Heavy Armor Optimization and Greater Heavy Armor Optimization, that collectively provide +2 to AC and I believe -3 to armor check...

What's wrong with the Duelist PRC? Or a Swashbuckler? The former doesn't use armor, the latter uses only the amount of armor which best fits with their present dexterity bonus (so chain shirt at low levels, eventually transitioning into leather or even cloth depending on the amount of magic...

I'm presently running two games. One game is a standard D&D game with a lot of new players. Its 4e, and we only meet for short periods once a week, so we tend to have combat days and talking days. The group spends a fair amount of time interacting with one another and not with me. This...