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The companies selling the PDFs aren't doing it for free either. Earlier in the thread it was mentioned they get around 30-35% of the sale price. Assuming 30% is correct, that would mean WotC is getting $17.47 from a PDF sale. The bigger internet retailers like Amazon and Overstock sometimes...

Unfortunately, in the US at least, this is becoming a common problem. Businesses like hotels and the pumps at gas stations put large holds on a credit or debit card when used. It can take a few days for the hold to be released and the charges to go through. This means that someone who should...

Do you know if the original 45 euro hold has been removed yet? It's posssible, as you've mentioned, that with the hold in place there isn't enough money on the card for the purchase to clear.

Seems okay to me. You use a healing potion when you're in combat after having used your second wind and have no cleric/warlord to heal you. It's a fast 10 hp you won't be getting any other way. If it doesn't use a surge, it throws the daily resource mechanics off. That may or may not be a...

As has been mentioned, there are few places in the real world where you can resell an item for better than maybe a 1/4 of the value you paid for it. This even applies to items like jewelry and videogames which have very long lifetimes even when used. If a player really wants more, I might let...

When this was brought up earlier it was mentioned that you could only do this once per encounter. Is that the case? If it is, it really isn't that super-useful. In combat, the target will always have at least a +10 to its Wil defense making even a character built to use the skill need 10+ to...

Certainly, that's what museums and libraries are for. It is also why most stores let you demo games, music, books, etc. I agree. Learning and enjoyment are also forms of profit. Both my mother and grandmother have Norman Rockwell prints. They were paid for. The paintings are likely in the...

The number of people who would pay to create and distribute information for free is pretty small. The quality of the vast majority of the work would be amateur ;) when compared to the quality of work people actually pay for. Go to any free art website and you'll see dozens of poor artists...

How would you feel if you found out somebody recorded all your classes without your permission and put them on the internet? What if the school district decided to fire you and just played those videos to the next year's students? You are being paid for your knowledge, and you are not...

The first part comes from my response to Novem5er who said that all knowledge should be free. Where is your proof for less than 5%? A Harvard study on something that would be impossible to get exacts on isn't really proof of anything. How do you know that CD sales in Spain wouldn't have...

Yes they are. There is no difference in saying all knowlede should be free, and that we shouldn't pay people for their knowledge. I guarnatee that the effects of illegal downloads is far greater than near zero effect. While someone who downloads 100 CDs of music a month wasn't going to buy...

We live in an information age. Many people's livelihoods are completely based on being paid to create and/or spread information. This group includes teachers, authors, artists, musicians, doctors, accountants, programmers, analysts, and other specialists. Obviously, they shouldn't be paid...

You can also use the heal skill to get an immediate saving throw or a +2 to a saving throw taken at the end of the afflicted character's turn.

I should point out that the main reason I want to leave behind 3.x is complexity rather than my feelings as to whether or not it is D&D. It becomes complex as a player at high level. It can be complex even at low levels to DM, and I don't have any fun DMing a high level game. Any attempt to...

I and some of my group have found this to already be the case with 3.x. We've talked about how it feels like a generic D20 fantasy game rather than D&D. I'm looking forward to 4e. I don't know that it will be the game I want to run and play, but I know that 3.x definitely is not.

The glossary wording is unfortunate if they really mean for a minion to be completely normal except for the fact it has 1 HP and doesn't take damage on any missed attack. I hope there is a better defintion somewhere in the MM and the glossary entry is just a summary.

I would definitely speak up. I would hate to be stuck holding my piece all the time. ;)

The greataxe is far more dangersous to a knight, assuming the person wielding it can use it effectively. A mounted knight has to worry about being knocked off his horse or his horse being killed by someone with a greataxe. I guess a ninja would throw a dagger through the knight's visor or...

Hit points are only partially narrative based. Anything that is purely narrative based would require no die rolls to adjudicate. That is why different weapons deal different damage in 4e. A simpler damage system would work, but I for one prefer weapon based damage systems.

I've had the same experiences with Amazon here in the US. With gaming products, they often seem to have a problem with securing enough product to fill preorders, or take a few days or weeks to actually receive the product once it has been released. I only order things from Amazon that say they...