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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4905334" data-attributes="member: 2067">Nina Paley did. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Admittedly, it was a film, and not RPG book art, but still, drawings are drawings.I'm sure she's not the only one, either, though she is the only one I know off hand.But you are right that some of the "re-usability" for artworks probably means that it's probably less likely than in many other media. Still, photographs have some of the same re-usability and Flickr is an awesome source of CC-licensed photos put up by lots of different people, some pro, some semi-pro, some just some dude. Fair enough. I stand firmly in the "give money to people who make awesome things in the hope that they will make more awesome things" camp, but I'm also a believer in Whuffie. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> $30 and maybe some derivative work in the setting can be my way of saying "This is good, do more of this," and giving them the resources to do it! For devil's advocate, though, why pay for the 4e Compendium? Since game rules aren't protected, why not just wait for someone to copy-paste the text to a Word file and cleanse it of WotC IP? I suppose it's a bit less likely to happen, but certainly the public has a license to do that. Unless there's something inherently valuable about, I dunno, the word "Bael Turath" to you? The license the public has with any published game is to rip the rules out and do whatever the heck we want with them, and even publish our own versions and make phat lewt off of it. Your local "opoly" game uses the heck out of that capacity!No one's saying you have to pay money, and no one is saying you're misusing the license. Who are you talking to? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> That's part of what a CC license does. A lot of it works on the theory that a free product will hit the maximum possible reader base, which is useful for niche products (like EP) to hit as big market as they can. There's no risk in initial investment. Then, if you like it, you pay for the "real thing" (with artwork, in this case). If you're a fan of dark transhuman sci-fi role-playing, I'm not sure why you wouldn't want this lovely thing sitting on your shelf, but yeah, you can have it without that. It's also entirely possible that Posthuman is, like a lot of small games publishers, not a lot more than four guys, some connections, some free time, and some software. Unlike a big fat public monstrosity, they can break even or make a small profit and be totally happy. If they get close to selling out their limited supply of books for a little niche RPG, I'm sure they'll be super-pumped, regardless of the amount of other people playing some de-nuded version for free. Hey, if you start a game, you should post about it here, tell us what you're doing with the setting, maybe show us the player handouts or adventures you're making with the system, give us some real-world feedback on the game, and other such stuff. I'm sure the other players would be pumped to hear about it, and I bet the creators would be, too.</blockquote>

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