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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 385740" data-attributes="member: 2013">I would immediately declare all text published in any 3rd edition book WotC has published as Public Domain.I would then use more of my money to purchase rights to as much artwork by Elmore, Otus, Lockwood, DiTerlizzi, and every other D&amp;D artist and release IT as Public Domain.If I could get the rights, I would declare all work published by TSR - for any edition of D&amp;D (1st, 2nd, 3rd, oD&amp;D, etc.) as Public Domain.Not Open Game Content.&nbsp; Public Domain.&nbsp; Anyone can use it any way they please!&nbsp; More D&amp;D for everyone!&nbsp; Yay (yes, I understand the implications)!Of course, this would forever destroy the business model on which profitability was made, but I'm sure I could keep the &quot;worthless&quot; D&amp;D brand name as my own and turn around and sell off the rest of WotC (Magic, Pokemon, et al) to some other corporation and live quite comfortably - especially with the knowledge that my favorite hobby was now completely safe from all future corporate depredation.Oh, and BTW, I would use the extra money I had to set up a website and make available for free download all of those things in high-quality, low-size PDFs (IOW, PDFs where the text is text and not graphics - helping keep the file size down)... or even RTFs or HTML.--The Sigil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 385740, member: 2013"] I would immediately declare all text published in any 3rd edition book WotC has published as Public Domain. I would then use more of my money to purchase rights to as much artwork by Elmore, Otus, Lockwood, DiTerlizzi, and every other D&D artist and release IT as Public Domain. If I could get the rights, I would declare all work published by TSR - for any edition of D&D (1st, 2nd, 3rd, oD&D, etc.) as Public Domain. Not Open Game Content. Public Domain. Anyone can use it any way they please! More D&D for everyone! Yay (yes, I understand the implications)! Of course, this would forever destroy the business model on which profitability was made, but I'm sure I could keep the "worthless" D&D brand name as my own and turn around and sell off the rest of WotC (Magic, Pokemon, et al) to some other corporation and live quite comfortably - especially with the knowledge that my favorite hobby was now completely safe from all future corporate depredation. Oh, and BTW, I would use the extra money I had to set up a website and make available for free download all of those things in high-quality, low-size PDFs (IOW, PDFs where the text is text and not graphics - helping keep the file size down)... or even RTFs or HTML. --The Sigil [/QUOTE]

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