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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 4201482" data-attributes="member: 710">Hasbro is not losing money to fan sites, either. Rules from fan-sites are rarely accepted in gamer groups. They might serve as an inspiration, but it's also likely that the sentence "I've got these rules from the internet" leads to a cruel and bloody human sacrifice. <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=";)" />I think one of the big differences to then and today is that people gauge the internet a little bit better these days. If you begin telling your fans they can't put up fan material for other fans, they will tell everyone about it, and quickly you either have enraged fans or simply ex-fans. Stuff like the OGL/GSL problems might be something many fans don't care that much about. But acting like a prick over your fans? That causes hurt feelings among all fans.Whatever happened to Amigo, the (first) German Publisher for 3e D&D? They wrote our webmaster an email that we should remove or rename a Prestige Class called "Rage Mage" because a class with its name and general was published in some Dragon magazine (probably none of us - especially not me, the creator of the class - ever read up to that point). As far as I know, we weren't the only one emailed about such matters. Amigo is no longer publishing 3E in Germany. (There is another publisher now. But I never picked up any of the German books.)A similar thing happened (before my time) with either FASA or TSR (or both). I hope that the businesses that are still around have learned how to handle this.</blockquote>

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