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No, I'm not receiving something that is being sold. I'm receiving something that is being given - a copy. Someone else somewhere might have been trying to sell a similar copy, or not, but the copy I received was given, not sold. Big difference from theft. Actually, no similarity at all. If you...

Let me go through the reasons and agree or disagree with them: No, not at all. There is nothing un-ethical about copying information. Some people like to equate downloading to theft to be able to play the ethics card, but the fact is that it's not theft, neither legally nor morally. Comparing...

What if the power was some wild magic power where the rider effect was randomly determined? I can see the curveballs coming...

I must agree with CapnZapp here. Ruling that you only need to save once against two instances of the same condition opens up a huge can of worms. Assume you are hit by two attacks. Attack A gives you ongoing 5 fire and immobilized (save ends both), attack B gives you ongoing 5 fire and dazed...

In that situation, the answer is Extended Rest.

1. You can also active his Second Wind (if he hasn't used it yet) with your Heal skill. 2. Yes, it's a result of 20 or higher, not a roll of 20 or higher. 3. If you stabilize someone with your Heal skill, he no longer rolls Death Saves. So, he will not die (by getting 1-9 three times) and he...

Since they are always used 2-handed, that is already factored into their damage dice. So if you're looking for an extra +1, the answer is no.

I'm a bit confused. In my PH Expanded Spellbook only applies to dailies? Why are utilities brought into this? Has that been in errata?

We all want more money. Personally (and as a creator of written works) I subscribe fully to the scandinavian tradition of creator rights - attrbiution, the right to be honored as the creator of one's work. I do think the anglo-saxon invention of copyright is weird thing. They got joined at the...

I cannot believe that you think that US copyright law would apply anywhere outside of the US. You have seriously misunderstood the Berne Convention. The copyrights apply in the country of the signatory, not the copyright laws. That would be absurd. And copyright laws can be very different in...

Really? Do you know for a fact that this is not within fair use in Italy? They included most of the text of the powers from PH. So how much can you include? One power? Two? Three? Had the PH been a book of food recipes, you could certainly include a lot of those recipes (as food recipes are not...

Yes, this I know and understand fully. If I took over 4epowercards.com and put it up on my server, WotC would have to bring the issue to swedish courts and the issue would be evaluated under swedish copyright laws as if WotC had been a swedish company. No problem with this. This makes no sense...

But if it's below the criminal threshold, can you still engage in a civil suit? And how can it be copyright infringement if it's not a criminal activity. Is your copyright law not part of the criminal code? I'm sorry if I derail the thread with detailed law questions, but I find it very...

Unless you count fines and jail time, of course. No, it would still be a crime. It seems you are only talking about civil law here. What about criminal law? I realise that were talking US law in this thread, since the site was located in the US. Maybe that's what is confusing me. Surely...

Now you are talking damages again. You could still smack them (i.e. ABC Roleplaying Co) for the crime of copyright infringement. You might not get any money from ABC RP Co, but you can certainly stop them from doing that.

In other words, their profit from DDI will be less, because some consumers would use the free service instead of subscribing to DDI. Is that what you're saying?

Are you saying that your consider the value of copyrights to be in the damages you can receive through litigation? I thought the value of copyrights were in the products you could sell... Do you think you can state your position a little more clearly, because it seems several of us have a hard...

And you'd still be wrong. No, technically you don't risk your copyrights. You only risk some of the damages you can get from litigation. You can still stop people from continue to infringe on your copyright. It's rather unhealthy to include income from litigation in your business plan. Maybe you...

Please note that this only applies if you sign the GSL. We don't want to create the impression that WotC actually owns a word... ;) I think they were called "yuan-ti", but the reason people stayed away from that word was that it was defined as PI and the OGL forbade you to use PI of someone...

Do you have any case law to back that up? There is nothing in the copyright laws I'm familiar with that allows for this. Maybe the US has some strangeness in its laws that I'm not aware of? It would be very interesting to know about.