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<blockquote data-quote="KidCthulhu" data-source="post: 120565" data-attributes="member: 26">Yep. So do I.&nbsp; I worked there, as did many other splendid board personages.&nbsp; And this point can't be stressed enough.&nbsp; Say what you will about the free market, or outdated copyright laws.&nbsp; What really happens when you use pirated game materials is that you take the food out of the mouth of your friends and colleagues, the game makers.&nbsp; These aren't fat cat record executive.&nbsp; These aren't millionaires (except John Romero).&nbsp; These are your fellow gamers, working for usually very small salaries, some doing this as a second job (especially in this new d20 environment).&nbsp; We do this because we love to game, and want to share that with other gamers.If you feel like you want to engage in practices that will ultimately lead to their being fewer game companies, and companies that produce fewer kinds of games (only those that sell really well), then feel free to Morpheus all you want.&nbsp; But when all you can play is what WotC produces and all the computer games are copies of what sold well last year, don't come bitching to me.I'm being very polite right now, but I can assure that this practice makes me more rip<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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> than I can say without resorting to (more) profanity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KidCthulhu, post: 120565, member: 26"] Yep. So do I. I worked there, as did many other splendid board personages. And this point can't be stressed enough. Say what you will about the free market, or outdated copyright laws. What really happens when you use pirated game materials is that you take the food out of the mouth of your friends and colleagues, the game makers. These aren't fat cat record executive. These aren't millionaires (except John Romero). These are your fellow gamers, working for usually very small salaries, some doing this as a second job (especially in this new d20 environment). We do this because we love to game, and want to share that with other gamers. If you feel like you want to engage in practices that will ultimately lead to their being fewer game companies, and companies that produce fewer kinds of games (only those that sell really well), then feel free to Morpheus all you want. But when all you can play is what WotC produces and all the computer games are copies of what sold well last year, don't come bitching to me. I'm being very polite right now, but I can assure that this practice makes me more rip:):):):) than I can say without resorting to (more) profanity. [/QUOTE]

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