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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nonlethal Force" data-source="post: 3322278" data-attributes="member: 35788">Actually, I do not believe you have been paying for the rules.  Those are actually free in the d20 SRD OGL agreement.  When you purchase the book, you get the book.  If all you are buying is the rules ... then buying the PHB/DMG/XPH/MM1 then that was a collosal blunder.  You can get the majority of it for free on the internet and download it!Now that we've traded exaggerations to each other's points and not really done anything profitable, I'd like to talk a little sense.WotC will not publish a book of giberish because it wouldn't sell.  However, it is certainly within their rights to do so.  And if you were to buy said book, you would have little right to complain because WotC books do not come hermetically sealed.  You can proofread them.  I would have absolutely no sympathy for a person who would buy a book of WotC gibberish and complain about it.  People normally don't walk into a car dealership and buy a car without doing research, looking at Consumer Reports, or at the very least taking it out for a test drive!My point is that arguing the extreme of a book of gibberish doesn't do anything.  WotC publishes books that are flawed, but not gibberish.  You as the consumer have the responsibility of deciding if you desire to consume.  Either spend your money or don't.  But purchasing a book you don't have to buy and complaining about content does not bering me to a point of sympathy.  Consumers need to make sure that they are spending money appropriately.  Anything else just encourages poor quality control.I don't buy this either.  I buy supplimetns and don't use them carte blanche.  Many I do allow, but some of the things I don't.  I have the ability to chose what sources I allow.  Personally, I did not buy CPsi because I don't like most of what they did.  (Especially with reagrd to the classes, not necessarily the power tweaks).  I did not buy CS because I didn't like the variant rules regarding skill tricks and the like.  But that's my choice.  I don't have to buy it because they altered the rules.As far as making sure there is a baseline in the rules, I agree.  And in my opinion they have done that.  Actually, they have not only done it, buy they exceded my expectations by making it available for free in the SRD, which is also  under the Open Gaming License.Good!  I think this is the way that it should work!  If more people didn't buy the books that they are complaining about, then a better message would be sent to WotC!I think that is exactly what I am saying.  Legally, WotC can print whatever they want in the book - especially because it isn't sealed content!  They can print gibberish (and in my opinion did in the Races of series).  So I didn't buy them.  In my estimation, they are not obligated to print anything that is useful to me.  But if they want my dollar, they will print stuff that is useful to me.Their obligation is to make sure the product function (opens/closes, pages are in order with no missing pages).  That is it.  That is all they are obligated to do.I am not obligated to buy the book.  If I choose to buy the book, by the nature of the fact that the books are not sealed and I can preview the material before I purchase it then I am also giving my approval of the content in the act of purchasing.Having said that, I think it is pretty darn nice of WotC to offer free errata on the web.</blockquote>

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