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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spell" data-source="post: 4016726" data-attributes="member: 19718">some say that swords were invented because (and after) someone invented the shield.what does it mean, in this case? that the average joe the gamer might have never dreamed to sue WotC because feat X looked like feat Y that he "published" on their forum, but he might be aware that he could now (well, not with gleemax, but maybe with other companies).again, a parallel with what happened in the music business. when napster came out, i was living in italy all the time. nobody knew about filesharing. then WHAM! napster is on tv because the majors are suing.effect #1: everyone and their dog downloaded napster even if just out of curiousity, and tried to download music. the creators of the program couldn't have had more success if they had spent millions on advertisment.effect #2: file sharing immediately acquires a "stick it to the man" flavour. magically, a "counterculture" is born. countercultures have a funny way of developing, especially in a global situation like internet, and especially when file sharing is not illegal everywhere.effect #3: music majors and some musicians appeared like spoilt children accusing their customers to be thieves. hardly a wise business practice, when these "thieves" are the fans that are supposed to pay 15$+ for your latest album, or to come to your concerts, or buy your merchandize and so on.i agree that they have to protect themselves from random lawsuits, but i think that there is a way of wording things that is less draconic and more friendly. for a hobby like RPG that is not mainstream and that involves the sense of belonging to a community (and a positive, collaborative one, for that matter), going draconic really seems like the worst possible solution, here. but then again, what do i know? <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=":)" />why not? joe the gamer might try to sue for using one of his posts in one of their published supplement. just because EnWorld doesn't make millions of dollars every quarter, it doesn't mean that the principle doesn't apply here. you surely do appreciate the difference between a novel and a game, though...well, as far as i know "the new rules looks like the house rules that we used at my gaming table since 1983" argument has always been used in a positive fashion by role players. i am not aware of people becoming upset for this, but i surely don't spend my days reading the forums. are you aware of any such circumstance?</blockquote>

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