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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9669059" data-attributes="member: 6779310">You're making a far more gross generalization: that &quot;has read&quot; requires &quot;has bought.&quot; I've read more systems than I've bought. Until she met me, my wife had never read any rulebooks other than HSR 4. before we were dating, she borrowed and read my WFRP. Many of my players have borrowed and read books they do not own. I borrowed and ran Transformers. (That was enough to put me off River Horse's main engine permanently.)The ratio of has... read:‌pirated &gt; read:bought ... even in D&amp;D. Far more pirated in Star Wars - during the run of SWSE, books were on the net in PDF within a week - despite zero legal PDF, or, perhaps, because of it. The same has been true for FFG SW... but due to the custom dice, most of them still bought either the die-roller or a pack or two of dice.Edit to add: Hell, one set of 2014 D&amp;D has been used by 3 GMs in the last 10 years... the ones I bought. My kids have both run D&amp;D using them. I think one of their friends used them at table, too. And the PBH was read by 4 other players.Piracy is and has been rampant with D&amp;D for decades. There was even a text-only copy of moldvay and cook on WWIVnet in the 90s.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 9669059, member: 6779310"] You're making a far more gross generalization: that "has read" requires "has bought." I've read more systems than I've bought. Until she met me, my wife had never read any rulebooks other than HSR 4. before we were dating, she borrowed and read my WFRP. Many of my players have borrowed and read books they do not own. I borrowed and ran Transformers. (That was enough to put me off River Horse's main engine permanently.) The ratio of has... read:‌pirated > read:bought ... even in D&D. Far more pirated in Star Wars - during the run of SWSE, books were on the net in PDF within a week - despite zero legal PDF, or, perhaps, because of it. The same has been true for FFG SW... but due to the custom dice, most of them still bought either the die-roller or a pack or two of dice. Edit to add: Hell, one set of 2014 D&D has been used by 3 GMs in the last 10 years... the ones I bought. My kids have both run D&D using them. I think one of their friends used them at table, too. And the PBH was read by 4 other players. Piracy is and has been rampant with D&D for decades. There was even a text-only copy of moldvay and cook on WWIVnet in the 90s. [/QUOTE]

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