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    Paizo Reverses Course, Re-Instates Community Use Policy

    I don't agree with that. Business should never do what their fans demand. They should do what is good business. The customer isn't always right, more often the customer is wrong, very wrong. Alienating their customer base is bad business, going back on that change is good business. That it's...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How D&D Beyond Will Handle Access To 2014 Rules

    Extensive experience in IT at many different (big) companies over the last 25+ years as an outside contractor. At small(er) companies you can often do everything yourself, so very agile. At bigger companies everything has been segmented, what you did yourself at a smaller company, now requires...
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    D&D General How long has your Current Group gamed together?

    4 of the 5 members that created our group 35 years ago. Meanwhile some new people joined, stayed a while and eventually left. Most of the core group is left...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How D&D Beyond Will Handle Access To 2014 Rules

    Why not build your own VTT? Others have done so and have even gotten a D&D5e license. let's see how fast, how well and how profitable you can make this... A one man team is extremely agile/fast. A small team is already slower and less agile. A multinational is a slow cumbersome beast. When...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How D&D Beyond Will Handle Access To 2014 Rules

    That is not how 'profit' works. You take all sales and the subtract all costs of the whole company, what's left is profit. Hasbro isn't making insane profits. They made a loss. And even before that, the profits they made weren't stellar. When you have a family, you also don't just look at what...
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    D&D 5E (2024) How D&D Beyond Will Handle Access To 2014 Rules

    This is not an issue inherent to digital media. As others have said, a PDF is also perfectly usable regardless of platform or system. In this case specifically it's the DDB platform that's giving you issues, that's because you don't control your purchase or the platform you run it on. Other...
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    do you think Arnold the T800 have retired in future Terminator franchise?

    I don't know how dead the Terminator franchise is exactly when Netflix is doing an animated series: Terminator Zero The thing with the Terminator series is that it keeps coming back... Kinda funny for a time travel IP! ;) I like T2 even more then T1, the other movies I didn't hate, but were...
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    Free League forcing Alchemy VTT to remove PDFs - Anti-consumer behaviour?

    I suspect that changed when Humble was bought by IGN (2017)... I can't set the publisher to 0 either, it's always 1 cent minimum. ;)
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    Release [Chaosium] 'A true labor of love' - Life and Traditions under the Sun Dome (Journey to Jonstown)

    When I try to open the product page I'm getting "Your loot is in another cave...", others might have the same issue... (In different browsers, logged in or out, even in private windows.) EDIT: It's not just this product, but all products, seems there is an issue on DTRPG...
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    Free League forcing Alchemy VTT to remove PDFs - Anti-consumer behaviour?

    You can, you can also donate directly. How many people do you think know of that and of that know actually do that every time? Edit: I did some math, and the people that adjust the pledge in favor of the charity, it's probably less then 20% of the people. Also keep in mind that Humble will...
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    Free League forcing Alchemy VTT to remove PDFs - Anti-consumer behaviour?

    That's just a whole lot of marketing, by default divider is: Default Donation (€27.65): €13.82 to Alchemy RPG €1.39 to Direct Relief €12.44 to Humble So most of the money go to Alchemy (and I suspect to FL via license fees) and Humble (Bundle) itself. It might act like a charity...
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    Free League forcing Alchemy VTT to remove PDFs - Anti-consumer behaviour?

    Yes that's on FL. What's on Alchemy is that FL even has this option on the Alchemy platform. They could of course pull product licenses, that should stop new sales, but shouldn't impact existing sales to customers. What if FL changes their policies again and ask Alchemy to completely pull their...
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    D&D General Huge Equipment Lists: Good, Bad, or Ugly?

    It's either that or the DM forks over a Bag of Holding, as they quickly get tired of me going: "I don't trust the neighborhood here to park my mule! Let's go somewhere else..." or "The parking is insufficient at that dungeon for my horse and wagon, let's move on..." ;)
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    Free League forcing Alchemy VTT to remove PDFs - Anti-consumer behaviour?

    Of course, you can download beforehand. But for most consumers, that don't have a backup strategy, when they accidentally delete their pdfs, loose their phone, burn their HDD/SSD, etc. They were expecting to re-download that pdf in case of failure. I expected to do that with my Humble Bundle...
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    Free League forcing Alchemy VTT to remove PDFs - Anti-consumer behaviour?

    Many folks just bought that Humble Bundle with Free League stuff just for the PDFs. I find it interesting that they can remove things you already 'own' without your consent. Are they also able to do that on services like Humble Bundle itself, Bundle of Holding, or DriveThruRPG, etc? Or is this...
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    D&D General D&D Player's Handbook 2024: The Official Advance Review

    But that's because we're all invisible and we keep missing the critical strike due to this condition... ;)
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D Player's Handbook Video Redactions & Takedowns

    I don't disagree, but your last paragraph is making way too light of the situation or the underlying issue. IF it's an individual that does something on it's own that doesn't have the authority to do so, internal processes need to be adjusted. Hasbro owns WotC now for 25+ years, if this isn't...
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    D&D 5E (2024) D&D Player's Handbook Video Redactions & Takedowns

    Well, I watched that partly before you mentioned it and that was actually what motivated my post/perspective. And imho there can be a significant difference between what people say and what they do. Or even what people belief they are doing and what they are actually doing. He (and you) can...
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    D&D 5E (2024) New stealth rules.

    If it is, could you instead of giving your interpretation, quote each step from the new PHB (with page number)? I've strung the separate rules together and that leaves a LOT of interpretation and making pretty big leaps between each rule. For example the Hide Action talks about 'finding', that...
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    D&D 5E (2024) New stealth rules.

    Where is that action listed? ;) If things were that simple, we wouldn't be having a 1200+ reaction discussion... I have a LOT of issues with these rules, parts of it are scattered all over the PHB and it's up to us to assemble that in a working whole? And I have this sneaking suspicion that...
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