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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BASHMAN" data-source="post: 4678182" data-attributes="member: 8277">Here's the thing, kid.  WotC has become a company now basically run by the legal dept.  It is like the old TSR days where anyone could be sued for say posting their character or an adventure they wrote on a website or something.  Websites are being served Cease & Desist letters left and right for DARING to make useful tools to help people play D&D and giving them away (so WotC can make far inferior tools and sell them for $$$, case in point <a href="http://4epowercards.com/" target="_blank">4epowercards.com</a> and this <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/9780786952830" target="_blank">inferior product</a> (which can be lost, is sold seperately by class & book, takes just as much time to look through as a book when choosing powers, and costs an arm and a leg).  The websites where you can illegally download pirated material-- those are not being shut down for some reason-- but the ones trying to make useful tools in good faith for gamers are...  because they will obey the law and the pirates don't.  In short, if you want to know anything about 4e D&D, and you didn't pay money for the privilege, you are committing a crime.  If one of us suggests a feat to you, we might be sued if we told you what the feat actually did.  yes, it all sounds utterly ridiculous (except to zombiefanboys I suppose or WotC Lawyers) but it is a reality.  My advice to you would be to borrow a friends books or printed copies of Dragon or something-- that is not illegal... yet.</blockquote>

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