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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painted_klown" data-source="post: 7659757" data-attributes="member: 6785485">I can certainly understand WOTC wanting to protect their IP, and at the very minimun, I can appreciate them being polite and not threatening legal action upon initial requests to take down items they feel violate their copyrights. I do hope this is a sign that WOTC is currently working on their own character generators, to be released to the masses as an official product. One thing I find a bit odd is that whille they are freely giving away the game on their website, and encouraging as many people to play as they can get, that they would have an issue with a fan created character generator. I guess my line of thinking is that it gets more people playing, and therefore should lead to more sales of the core books, or at least the PHB at a minimum. Either way, WOTC doesn't veiw it the same, so we must accept that. Initially (out of ignorance), I was wondering how you could play using only the free PDF files on their website. After I bought the 3 core books, and ran a few sessions (starter set LMoP and homebrew) I realized that they truly did give 5E away for free. As I was explaining this to a couple of new players, it really hit me how generous that move was. Really, you could honestly play D&D 5E for the rest of your life, and never have to spend any money to do so. Of course, you may get bored with the limited number of player options and/or monsters after a while, but still, it can be done at no cost. If/when you do hit a point that you want more options, you can always choose pick up the 3 core books to feed the itch for more content. As far as I am aware, they haven't done that with any edition in the past. Once I had that "moment of realization" so-to-speak, it actually made me feel good to know that I was supporting a game (financially, and by word of mouth/encouragement) that was not only the most well known RPG, but one that I could show people a couple of links, and introduce them to years and years of RPG fun for free. While it's easy to come on a message board and point out everything we may find to quibble with, IMO it's hard to argue that WOTC haven't been more than generous to its fans with 5E.</blockquote>

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