(DaemonEye) Psionics Handbook Companion

[Strutinan]

Thank you for proving my point!

"Your successful melee touch attack" is are the only words that are the same, and it si the same as in SHOCKING GRASP as well. As you just showed, the rest of the two descriptins are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, unless you want to quibble about words like "immediately", "to", "the" and "damage"! Lol. See, STILL not "except for a word or two different".

Sequester: What about the extra PARAGRAPH AND A HALF of text in the PsiHB version? As is obvious from what you just reprinted, there is MUCH more descriptive text neccessary, and my version is an obvious clairification on how the power works using the "Psi is Different" model I presented in my book.

Which bring up another point. You just publically reprinted my altered power descriptions WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. Naughty naughty.

 

[Ghostwind]

Strutinan, I applaud the fact that you were able to get OGL approval from your product. Good luck on the sales.

However, you are still consistently being extremely negative in your behavior towards others (and in some cases bordering on rudeness). It is understandable that you are defensive about a product that you poured your heart and soul into, but you are going to have to learn to accept constructive criticism and not be constantly insulted by it. How are you going to react when critical reviews are publicly posted about your product? What if they are negative reviews? Are you going to attack the reviewer and call him names or take the criticism as it is meant and make a better product the next time around? There will certainly be reviewers that will take your book apart piece by piece and thorough dissect it for good or bad. You should be prepared for that.

Technically, you are right in that the examples that philreed gives are grammatically different. But reading it over, I can see where his conclusions are coming from. There are enough similarites present to lead one to determine that they are essentially the same in spirit.

 

[Telgian]

Perhaps at this point e-mail would be useful for continuing the discussion?

Just a suggestion.

 

[Strutinan]

Your advice concearning my behavior would hold more weight in my eyes if yourself had not used the negative description "juvenile" to refer to me.

As far as my defending my intellectual property and product identity goes, if I don't defend it I lose it. Would you be making these same complaints if he was reprinting sections of "If Thoughts Could Kill" and Bruce Cordell was telling him he was out-of-order? I would tell him to cease-and-desists reprinting material directly from the PsiHB, but that is not my place and could be misconstrued as an attempt to lay claim to somebody else's IP/PI.

Lastly, I am not being negative, I am being factual. If the facts weigh negatively on somebody, that indicates THEY are in error, not the person who presents the facts. A point I learned much about during this whole debaucle.

[Edit] Sorry, I was writing this while you where making your very EXCELENT suggestion. If you gentlemen have any further problems with me, please take them up privately. Strutinan@hotmail.com And Morrus, could you please delete posts starting from PhilReed's allegation about my content, to the rest of this one? Leave Telgian's as-is if you can, it has no bearing diretly on the matter. Thank you. [/Edit]

 

[philreed]

I'm done with this.

WotC legal can decide what they want to do about it. I can say I will not be purchasing any other "products" from this "author."

 

[Darke]

I agree with philreed - seems like just a rewritten PsiHB with only minor changes (like damage value in psychic vampire).

Bad...really bad...

das Darke

 

[Krug]

oh well maybe WotC should take care of it. If it is (and I'm not spending $5 to find out), it might make them more wary of releasing stuff into the SRD. Bad news for the industry as a whole.

 

[Strutinan]

You folks are missing one simple fact: WotC already "took care of" and APROVED it!

No matter who wants to complain about the altered and new descriptions, it HAS to be legal. WotC_legal trumps all other arguments!

As far as "rewritten PsiHB" goes, it is (as I have stated all along) a compilation of ALTERED RULES and NEW material. While I would be the first in line to buy a revised and fixed version of the PsiHB, I am not going to take on the herculean task of MAKING one!

 

[Dark Psion]

Strutinan, I applaud the fact that you were able to get OGL approval from your product. Good luck on the sales.

However, you are still consistently being extremely negative in your behavior towards others (and in some cases bordering on rudeness).

He is being rude?

So far you've suffered more than any of us. I don't think anyone would complain if you banned him from the site.

I wonder how many of the people who purchased his "product" had never bought a PDF before. Even if it's one person there's a chance that person will never buy another PDF.

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I don't expect a refund at all. I just wish people would be a bit more careful (and honest) before releasing PDF products. Who knows how many potential customers are lost if their very first PDF purchase is something like this.

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A lot of text in the power descriptions is very close to what's not SRD material. I'd say about 85% is the same with a word changed here and there.

I'm still not happy with my purchase but I didn't expect to be. I just hope we don't lose potential PDF customers who happen to purchase this thing first.

I'd say someone else is beating the dead horse here. If this imaginary player is just now making his first pdf purchase then he may not have even found EnWorld yet. If that is true, then he doesn't even know there is a problem. He is probably looking at the two books, the original and the revised, and wondering why someone cut this and that out.

One interesting thing here is that we get to see the difference between the two and what negative effects the OGL and SRD might have on publishing.

 

[jmucchiello]

IANAL

As far as my defending my intellectual property and product identity goes, if I don't defend it I lose it.

Not true. That only applies to trademarks. You can arbitrarily decide to allow some people to use your copyrighted material as they like and go to court against others at your whim.

Quoting from source material in a review is a standard fair use of the materials.

[Edit]And Morrus, could you please delete posts starting from PhilReed's allegation about my content, to the rest of this one? [/Edit]

Well I certainly hope Morrus does no such thing. Phil was replying to my message asking someone for a review and he quoted your material (and Wizard's material) in the process. He did nothing wrong by doing so.

Thanks, phil.