D&D General Hey, are we all cool with having to buy the same book twice, or what?

[FlyingChihuahua]

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So let's get this straight. Post asking if everyone is okay with paying twice. Answer is pretty much overwhelmingly yes, that while a PDF would be nice people recognize the value of things like the service that DndBeyond provides.

Then segue into how taxes in the US are FUBAR and corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes. Rant about subcontractors and affiliated companies having unethical business practices. Call corporations evil.

Because corporations are evil we all deserve free PDFs while ignoring logistical an licensing concerns. Claim that the founders of D&D were a couple of fun loving beatnik hippies. Ignore the fact that they drove their golden goose into the ground while simultaneously getting into long, protracted legal fights and suing everyone in sight.

Claim that everyone who disagrees with all of this is trying to take away your freedom.

Huh. Words fail me.

seems pretty typical to me, honestly.

 

[Parmandur]

So let's get this straight. Post asking if everyone is okay with paying twice. Answer is pretty much overwhelmingly yes, that while a PDF would be nice people recognize the value of things like the service that DndBeyond provides.

Then segue into how taxes in the US are FUBAR and corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes. Rant about subcontractors and affiliated companies having unethical business practices. Call corporations evil.

Because corporations are evil we all deserve free PDFs while ignoring logistical an licensing concerns. Claim that the founders of D&D were a couple of fun loving beatnik hippies. Ignore the fact that they drove their golden goose into the ground while simultaneously getting into long, protracted legal fights and suing everyone in sight.

Claim that everyone who disagrees with all of this is trying to take away your freedom.

Huh. Words fail me.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

 

[Ash Mantle]

All I can say is I only bought the books once. So I clearly didn’t have to buy them twice. Because I bought them once.

I really think this cannot be understated enough, it's always being our choice that we exercise in buying the books.

 

[Umbran]

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

(Wake Up Sheeple)

 

[Ash Mantle]

Since the Starter Rules have been extremely well received and successful, it's my hope that one day Wizards could release the PHB and/or MM and/or DMG as free pdfs on their website, with any other books needing to be bought. That'll place them in a multiverse of good will.

 

[Umbran]

Since the Starter Rules have been extremely well received and successful, it's my hope that one day Wizards could release the PHB and/or MM and/or DMG as free pdfs on their website, with any other books needing to be bought. That'll place them in a multiverse of good will.

The PHB is still occasionally hitting in the top ten sales ranking for books on Amazon. It will be a long time before they offer that for free...

 

[Ash Mantle]

The PHB is still occasionally hitting in the top ten sales ranking for books on Amazon. It will be a long time before they offer that for free...

My capacity for hope is incandescent if they could release a PHB, say with an eventual 5.5e or 6e, that'll be amazing.

 

[CleverNickName]

I guess technically I bought the Player's Handbook four times. Once for me, once for my wife, a third time to replace mine when it was lost/stolen, and a fourth time when I bought one for a friend as a gift. Oh, and I bought an electronic copy of it on Roll20.

I still don't feel mistreated.

 

[FlyingChihuahua]

I guess technically I bought the Player's Handbook four times. Once for me, once for my wife, a third time to replace mine when it was lost/stolen, and a fourth time when I bought one for a friend as a gift. Oh, and I bought an electronic copy of it on Roll20.

I still don't feel mistreated.

That's because you've been thoroughly brainwashed, sorry to say.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Don’t support piracy on my site, please.

I objectively did not do that.
It is genuinely insane to suggest that the position that thieves aren’t “scum” is a statement in support of thieves.

Ok, just because I don't like stealing doesn't mean I want to kill people. This is equivocation at its worst.

They're not the same. You bringing it up is an attempt to compare me to literal murderers, and I'm not happy with the comparison.

No, it means that you are using the same terminology that people use to excuse talking about shooting thieves.

Generally, calling a broad group of people scum is in line with rhetoric used to excuse violence against those people. That doesn’t mean that everyone who calls thieves or any other group “scum” wants to personally act out violent retribution against them, it just means that you’re using the same rhetorical terminology.

And that aside, calling petty thieves scum is just fracking disgusting.