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Buy it now. Part human, part bat. It's Batm -- er, werebats! Universally depicted as screeching denizens of the night sky, werebats would prefer the life of reclusive homebodies but sometimes find themselves forced into the moonlight to protect family and friends. Bite Me! Werebats is a...

Prestigious Paths: Horse Lord for the Pathfinder RPG Buy it now. Each release for Prestigious Paths for the Pathfinder RPG presents a single, new prestige class for your Pathfinder RPG game. Each release presents the basic prestige class information you would expect, and likely some other...

Bite Me! Werewolves is Howling to be Unleashed in Your Game Buy it now. The original weres! Known to all as rampant killers, their uncontrollable appetites tied to the waxing and waning of an accursed moon -- but maybe a werewolf can be something else, something more. Bite Me! Werewolves...

Crawthorne's Catalog of Creatures: Abroa for the Pathfinder RPG Buy it now. Each release for Crawthorne's Catalog of Creatures for the Pathfinder RPG presents a single, new creature for your Pathfinder RPG game, as presented by the famous and retired monster hunter and adventurer, Lord...

Again, you have access to information on everyone's budgets and profit margins ... how? When you start saying things like publishers in the RPG industry will make back money spent "and then some" (emphasis mine), you illustrate a common misunderstanding of the industry's economics. Not that it...

Why should they be? If someone's willing to do the work and the publisher is happy with it, why should the publisher be ashamed? Are you able to access the finances behind publisher budgets to draw some conclusion about what's going back into future product versus the publishers' pockets the...

So, it hasn't changed since I was published in Rifter #1 in the '90s. I'm fairly certain I could guess what happened :)

Bite Me! The Gaming Guide to Lycanthropes Changes the Shape of your Game Buy it now. Note that this work collects the following previously released Bite Me! PDFs into one collection (plus new content): Wereblooded, Playing Lycanthropes, Archetypes, Skindancers. Bite Me! The Gaming Guide to...

The Manual of Mutants & Monsters Mummy for ICONS wants to Wrap Up Your Heroes Buy it now This release of The Manual of Mutants & Monsters for ICONS provides game stats on the Mummy, an undead horror doomed to rise up again. Whether charged with guardian something, or cursed to eternal life...

I'm not saying they are. I'm saying that everyone takes for granted Black Letter laws are beyond contesting, as is possible with the "text of the law" on the basis of how that text is interpreted. As that is the case -- as it is the "text of the law beyond dispute" -- it's odd that absolutely...

Yes, I know that the copyright laws change. I can, for example, find plenty of pre-1974 changes case law and references. However, acknowledging copyright changes is not proof it once held to a 10% rule. (EDIT: Although 10% or 15 images for education purposes is the current limits, which is a big...

I'd like to see a link or proof of that. Sounds like something born out of people misunderstanding the 10% prose/15 images copyright reproduction education institution terms. EDIT: Because no matter how many times I've seen someone say "oh, it's been changed, but it used to be like this," I've...

No problem. I'm a bit of a copyright geek (if there is such a thing), so I enjoy writing and talking about the subject. If you're interested enough to know more, here's an article I wrote about it last year, much of which touches on the RPG industry. http://trustrum.com/copyright-myths/

It is a myth that no copyright infringement occurs so long as you don't earn money from it. There are other thresholds for Fair Use protection (which is what covers this sort of thing -- using someone else's IP without permission), and profit is just one of them. You can see them in Section 107...

Considering I don't even bother submitting to the ENnies but still thought it was bad form to accept something that could potentially receive an award despite illegally using someone else's IP, I think you'll find you're making a big assumption.

Bite Me! Weremantises is Guaranteed to Bug Your Players Buy it now. Not all lycanthropes are soft, furry, and oh so romantic. Some are covered in spiky natural armor, with insectile mandibles capable of biting a head off—and with a temperament that makes the head-biting thing a genuine...

Well, if it's someone else, it stands as a good example of why you don't go around distributing someone else's IP without their permission -- you have no control over where it goes or what is done with it, and have no substantial legal recourse to stop others from doing what they want. Because...

But what you describe as "political leverage" the industry calls "marketing." I'm not being facetious or sarcastic. This sort of decision is made all the time in any industry where a product's representation to its market has to be considered simply on the merits of how it relates to the...

If you're not, someone is doing it with your PDF (which is a danger of freely distributing infringing material with your name attached.) From the Lulu description: Taken from Mr Mappin's Website. "This is a free-of-charge RPG presented in PDF format for you to download and use for your...

Oh, and by the way, if anyone is still on the fence about the legality of this product (including Don), he is selling a print version on Lulu at cost (I'm not going to post the link, as any copy sold would only dig Don's hole deeper for him.) Even though he isn't making a profit, even charging...