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  1. Xyxox

    Essentials - calling a spade a spade

    I think it is more of a function of getting close to a 5E rather than actually having a 5E. IIRC, the release of revised PHB and DMG along with various Player's Options books were referred to as 2.5 as early as 1997.
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    Since this discussion is off topic, I will refrain from further responses.
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    The business of business is to turn a profit. Everything else comes after that single goal. Failure to be mindful of that fact results in the failure of the business.
  4. Xyxox

    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    Any business flipping it about is doomed to failure.
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    Nope, the function of any incroporated entity is to profit. Making good and useful products is the means to the end of turning a profit. This end is altered slightly for publicly traded companies. The entire reasong for the existence of a publicly traded company is to insure shareholders...
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    Devastation

    My condolences. I have been a former smoker for the past 11 years after being a 2 1/2 pack per day smoker for 25 years. Quitting cigarettes was the most difficult thing I have ever done. As I understand it, mny father is currently dying from lung disease. He is a 58 year smoker.
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    Quite frankly, I had been nearly cnvinced to give up my army builder spreadsheets in favor of the software you produce until this recent event and I discovered the troubles your company had with credit cards and hackers via another forum. So I'm sticking to my army builder spread sheets, though...
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    If Lone Wolf Development ever took a company to court over it, I'd bet on the defendants.
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    I've been using the term since 1985 to describe my spreadsheets originally used with the first edition of Battlesystem and I refuse to stop calling my army builder spreadsheets what they are.
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    After reading this I can't get the storline from Eddie Murphy's Coming to America where the guy owns MacDougal's Hamburgers out of my mind. He was complaining about being sued and in one scene is reading the McDonald's guidebook on restaurant management. Ironically, Art Buchwald successfully...
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    That's one of two wild cards I see in this whole episode. 1) What will Mongoose do regarding their Lone Wolf IP since LWD brought this all to the forefront? 2) What will Privateer Press, GW, etc. do about the dataset files for LWD's Army Builder? Are there licensing agreements in place for...
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    I'm going to still refer to my spreadsheets, which evolved from spreadsheets on spreadsheet software no longer available and began in the eighties, as "Army Builder Spreadsheets". Know what? There's not thing one Lone Wolf can do about it. There's not thing one they cna do about my post...
  13. Xyxox

    Dark Sun Preparation?

    I've got a copy of everything from the 2E run. I ran it for several years. Great fun! The Prism Pentad is absolutely necessary. The early stuff for the game was great, the later stuff, especially the revised boxed set, not so much.
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    I'll accept this. To quote J.K. Rowling, "It's easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right." I have no problems with somebody appropriately protecting their intellectual property.
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    Are people still mad about . . .

    I'll tell you what I'm still mad about... Snit's Revenge.
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    The whole point is, they CANNOT require admins to delete or rwrite stuff people have written. There is no legal basis for that requirement. You will notice that the admins of ENWorld have completely ignored it because the request is 100% rubbish. Army Builder.
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    I don't think trademark law means what you and LoneWolfDevel think it means. LoneWolfDevel's attempt to shut down the use of the term on message boards is an innacurate application of trademark law.
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    Looks like they're making the rounds of game forums. And, they've made my decision for me. No Army Builder or Hero Lab software for me. This is beyond the pale. They've gone all Lorraine Williams on the internet!
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    So all this talk about a product I've been meaning to buy, plus some issues the company that produces that product had a while back (as I discovered on another forum) has lead me to search out a different roster creation tool. I found The Forge. I think I'll give ti a whirl while things sort...
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    Lone Wolf sends Cease & Desist letters to anyone using the term 'Army Builder'

    Yep, the trademark is legit. Enforcing it when it comes to other products that create rosters is legit, too. They went overboard on demanding forums be policed for any use of the phrase, though.
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