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Message: <blockquote data-quote="msd" data-source="post: 1596172" data-attributes="member: 19974">Ridiculous?I don't think it's dumb at all, and with all due respect, your analogy seems a little off. I think everyone would be cautious if they had bought a unique font and then commerically re-distributed a piece of work printed in that font. That's not the case here...the maker of the software and the maker of the font/art packs are the same company. Is it reasonable to wonder, when you use Arial to compose a work in Word which you intend to be published, whether or not you should contact Microsoft and ask whether or not they are owed a royalty for each distributed copy? And to suggest that the complaint that their maps are not commercially re-distributable is "ridiculous" is a little dramatic. I totally agree that reasonable people can differ on this issue, but I think the label ridiculous is a little extreme. They are introducing their product into a market in which every competitor allows commercial publication. In fact, they chose the exact same price point (approx. 80 USD) as the (arguably) leader of the RPG mapping industry. If that doesn't speak to the fact that Fluid itself sees themselves as being in competition with something like CC2, I'm not sure what does. In the end, when all the other products in the marketplace allow this feature, the suggestion that Dundjinni should do so as well is hardly ridiculous...</blockquote>