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Gary still has unpublished work. And it's not just whatever of Castle Zagyg he did. There are several things for Lejendary Adventure for instance that were going to be published. So people foolishly thinking there's "nothing left of Gary" have no idea. I know because I've waited over a...

Regarding normal items--for weapons and armor, pay close attention to the tiers listed. There are 7 tiers. The higher the tier the better suited it is--better armor, better damage, more enchantment slots, etc. Once you have the minimum attributes needed for it, feel free to sell off your old...

Based on what I know, I think when Peter Atkinson bought TSR, he tried to make amends to the creators, both Gary and Dave. (There's a very good reason why there's a special thanks to Peter Atkinson on CZ:Upper Works even though he was not involved in the project). I don't think Atkinson could...

Well, consider EGG first created Chainmail and also created GenCon, I think he would have been famous enough. By his own wording, Dave only wrote 1/3rd of the Men and Magic book. While this is very much in dispute over the years, both men knew each other threw Wargaming. Gary and Dave were...

Yeah, Tom Wham still lives in LG. He's a big boardgame geek and I got to play a few games with him, EGG, and Ernie Gygax. He and Jim Ward created a game a few years back called Dragon Lairds. LL I believe stopped playing D&D and as Gary told me "went back to playing bridge". Although if he...

I'm not going to argue with the Wizard in 4e with the new game mechanics, since a lot of 3er's might not remember 1/2 edition version where you had a hp cap and you also would fail automatically if you took a single point of damage. Obviously, so many people think Wizards were "broken", even...

While the earliest of Lovecrafts works have passed into the public domain, many later works haven't. The game CoC licenses some works from Arkham House, and creates its own lore. Those elements are still protected under copyright. In many cases, a lot of authors add to the Mythos, but some...

Reading the PDF again, I find the following Ironic. Mod edit: Let us not engage in analysis of religous belief systems, please. That way lies offense and argument. I also find it ironic that the guys on RPTools considered ENWorld "working with WoTC" and attempting to incriminate the Polish...

You can read the settlement in the documents I attached. From what I've seen, both of the defendants who settled are over 18. I believe Arthur Le confessed to that. I didn't see an age for Mr. Nolan, but I don't think you can represent yourself pro se if you are a minor, though an attorney...

Not quite. Economy of the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Next Eleven - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Granted, the country has close to 40% of people "below the poverty line", but considering the big development in that country, something tells me if the defendant has access...

Attached are all the legal documents in question. I have not chosen the Poland based one because no progress has been made there. Poland and the Phillipines are NOT "Third World" countries. Read up about them on Wikipedia. Technically the term "third world" is outdated with the fall of the...

There's a lot of other factors involved too. Remember that D&D started by aiming at the Wargaming market first and then moving towards the mainstream. Without that market--would the mainstream have been interested first? Remember, 4e is designed in a world when D&D and it's inspirational...

Except the big problem I see now is that one particular game dominates the market a lot more than in the past. This is less "creative" because all you have now is variants of the same thing. I think the hobby was actually healthier when game designers created different stuff rather than...

I don't think we were saying there were absolutely no new games, rather, the state of new games seem to be in decline. White Wolf seems to be the only other big publisher. Chaosim is still around. But we had other good companies that were second-tier (not what I'd call Indy publishers), like...

I'm 100% in agreement with you. To me, the focus on making supplements or variant games that were based on the OGL SRD for D&D 3.x has hurt the mainstream gaming market. People love to talk about how the OGL "creates innovation", but it doesn't really do a lot. Even the experimental variant...

Yes, this is true. The moral thing to do is to go without, not to use unethical means to get the product. If I only have X dollars in my game budget, I can spend it on X or Y, I don't have a right to take Y because I feel Y is "overpriced". If something's overpriced, let the legitimate market...

I'm surprised these guys didn't report this earlier, I had already posted the results of Arthur Le several weeks ago. Maybe I need to check PACER again.

To me, the classic era was before 2nd Edition, not so much because of the editions but because of the following: (I started with #48, but I guess you can include earlier times). 1) Classic Gygax, as well as Greenwood and Moore and LL. The key thing about Gygax leaving was he eventually took...

Yeah, I personally think that they would rather ignore most people and go after the flagrant violators, rather than have a very liberal policy and then have people try to find loopholes and use that policy against them. Legally, that's the best way to handle things.

Well, while it may not be theft in strict legal terms, Congress passed the NET act, or No Electronic Theft act, which was passed after the referenced case as follows. NET Act: 17 U.S.C. and 18 U.S.C. as amended (redlined) So, if congress titles the bill with theft, the president signs it, even...