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It is highly unlikely, since copyrights don't work that way. You may know of cases where a company lost their trademark after failing to protect it. Trademarks are not copyrights, and don't work the same way.

No. You are not. This bit of misinformation gets trotted out every time a case involving copyright shows up, and it is dead wrong. As in, the statute governing copyrights is exactly the opposite of this. You can lose trademark protection if you do not defend your trademark. You do not lose...

No, one wouldn't. Not under the current copyright laws. That's what statutory damages are for.

No. You don't. Not for copyright. Trademark, yes, but copyright, no. So I'm pretty certain their lawyers didn't give that advice, because it would be stupid of them to do so, as it is wrong.

That's not precisely accurate. They said V's effective level would be so high that he would be unlikely to find anything that he could defeat and gain XP. I suppose it is possible that destroying a significant portion of the black dragons in the world might qualify.

It was well-executed space opera, with weirdness added. That's what made it great.

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Thanks. Oddly, LibraryThing doesn't let you just say an author is alive or dead, it only calculates if they are alive or dead based upon birth and death dates. If someone has a birth date, but no death date, they are listed as alive (unless the birth date is over 100 years old), if they have...

Over on LibraryThing, several RPG authors are listed in their author database, but a lot of biographical information is missing for some of them. I'm trying to clean up the entires a little, but can't seem to find any background information about these guys. if anyone knows anything about these...

And I fail to see why this is a problem. I have never understood why, with a robust multiclassing system, there has been this yearning for single classed characters to be common. Why is it a problem if there are almost no 11-20 level wizards, rather than a bunch of 11-20 level wizard...

I have never understood why multiclassing or a system that encouraged multiclassing was bad.

Well, the origin of robots (the term) probably traces to Kapek's RUR, which predated the first published appearance of Buck Rogers by seven years. This doesn't even begin to consider creatures, such a Frankenstein's monster, who could be considered "robots" even if the term wasn't applied to...

There is nothing in the rules that prevents this. Most well-run wizards should end up with multiple spellbooks containing different spells by the time they reach mid-level.

In a sense, Rorshach is the only one of the Watchmen who could colorably be described as a hero. He's not a mass murderer of random innocent people (like Ozymandias), he's not an inhuman amoral creature (like Dr. Manhattan), he's not a brutal government stooge who apparently killed his own child...

What you have described your current campaign as is not necessarily what many people would define as a "railroad". Having clear objectives is not the markings of a railroad campaign. A railroad campaign is one in which the decisions of the players have little or no impact on the unfolding events...

363 seperate 3rd edition books, plus another 42 imputed books (based upon magazine subscriptions), for a total of 405 books. This number may rise if I can find some of the remaining titles I am looking for.

363 different published 3rd edition works, plus seven years worth of magazine subscriptions, for a total of 405 books (using the metric laid out in this thread). Due to a math error on my part, I voted in the 300-399 category.

A well-designed cost of living calculation system will account for this sort of thing. Of course, people can disagree about what is put into the calculation - at what point does cable/satellite television become so routine that it must be put into the calculation? How do you break down the...