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While I use the male pronoun for anyone who I don't care about the gender of, I'm vaguely sure that the gender balance of actual NPCs in my campaign worlds is pretty equitable. This is probably easier to handle as a writer or programmer, however, simply because you have the time to think about...

Sorry for not responding to this earlier, but ENWorld is too laggy for me to actually post messages at all anymore, 80% of the time. Nonetheless, I have to call balderdash on this just a little - almost no physical RPG product has ever had a single release date. Despite that 4e books currently...

Unless you mean that it's harder to find pirate copies than it used to be to find legitimate copies to purchase... no, not even a little. Even the RIAA has problems making it harder to find pirated copies today than it was a week ago, by which I mean they fail all the time and occasionally post...

Unless you want to use a DRM scheme that attempts to make illegal use more technically difficult, yes. Those are frequently broken, too, but there's a distinct gap in the required skillset - I'm fairly sure I could teach my mother how to strip the protections from a DrivethruRPG PDF in about...

Holy thread necromancy, Batman! Two observations: 1) The fact that WotC filed lawsuits against people who purchased books from DTRPG basically destroyed DTRPG's latest security measure - they were forced to disclose the nature of the security measure which caught the pirates in the lawsuit...

They certainly were not. Most people don't understand how piracy (of anything, really) actually works and for all they're concerned, the magic piracy fairies that go by such strange names as Reloaded and Deviance just make it available on torrent sites a few hours after release. Or earlier. ;)

See, that's what's not the case. A vast majority of people who download something illegally have never came within a mile of intent to purchase the work in question. So it's more like asking people who've illegally downloaded stuff if they've bought the product or other related products...

My main reason for not giving two hoots for their game table is that any gains it makes in looking better or being more stable than MapTool would be more than lost by making it so I can't play D&D with my friends online unless they're all DDI subscribers. And frankly that doesn't have a chance...

So now he's not going to buy the PDF not in favor of an equal but free option, but because he can't, so he's... either going to pirate a scan (if he wants to play D&D with it) or not play Dungeons & Dragons. Unless he's the kind of person who also owns a physical copy, as I said. He's not going...

The casual pirate is a dude in an online gaming group who is given a pirate copy of the PHB so he can make a character. (And you can say what you want about the GSL, but not nearly requiring piracy to convert people online from people who've heard of D&D into D&D players was a big advantage of...

jgbrowning> While I can see where you're coming from, I also believe that any content creator who attempts to bury and destroy his work despite demand for it is a jerk, and thus I don't care one whit for any disrespect I do him, even if I was a fan before he became a jerk. But I've been in the...

Bollocks. We'll either get a longwinded explanation out of the blue of everything that went wrong explaining why it had to be cancelled, or they'll release it out of the blue and then probably hike the DDI subscription price like they said they would back before these things started their coming...

Since it was an assertion in a court document rather than in a press release, I thought they were unambiguously referring to their estimate of all D&D players, too. In a press release, I would have read it as a deliberate attepmt to say "all D&D players" and have people think "4e D&D players".

Yeah, about the only times I complain that businesses are guilty of highway robbery is when they're like... amusement parks that are open in the sweltering heat of summer and charge $4 for a bottle of water because people need it to not die of heatstroke and can't buy it from anywhere else...

Microsoft also tends to look the other way at anything short of egregious abuse of free but legitimate Windows licenses (MSDN accounts and volume license keys), because they make enough sales to computer builders and the general market that it's not really worth caring, and it keeps basically...

Because otherwise we couldn't do what we want. YouTube - You Are A Pirate (Lazy Town)

I know a good few people who were only "converted" from freeform roleplay to dabbling in RPGs with... you know, rules and all because of the availability of pirated books, but I'm primarily an online roleplayer, and in online circles piracy is more prevalent and you can't have people just lend...

I don't really think any of the options applied to me, but I guess I'm going to stop buying WotC PDFs since... well, they're not going to sell them to me any more. And since I've always liked pre-3e editions of D&D and getting the physical books for those can be a pain and a half, that makes me...

I don't think piracy is a counterculture. I mean, certainly dedicated pirates are, but do you remember Napster? You ever been to Youtube? A lot of forms of copyright infringement are just plain parts of our culture at this point. So yeah, for some reason that I can't imagine people tend to...

Unfortunately, the only public data on that is both comparative (DTRPG's "top seller" rankings and "metal" rankings) rather than numerical and also gone now.