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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nopantsyet" data-source="post: 2722902" data-attributes="member: 3109">I wish we could all just agree that violation of copyright law is not the same as theft, robbery, piracy or cruelty to kittens, but that doesn't make it right. Not because it's inherently naughty, but because it violates the social contract of commerce. I do agree that creators are dependant upon their works to make a living, and circumventing the terms under which they distribute their work unjustly deprives them of livelihood. Unjust, you know--not a moral wrong. I mean, I might not get a raise I think I deserve or I might get fired. It's not wrong -- it's just a fact of the system. Every business has its liabilities.I don't think that's really the problem. The problem is people not buying products. Whatever the reason or resort, they're buying less. The industry as a whole isn't competing well against other things. Like gas. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> So they need to adapt and improve. I've bought a lot of d20 books over the past 5 years, both print and electronic, and what I can say is that the last thing I need is another book. With career, family, etc., prepping and playing is hard enough to fit in. So far, most of the books out there only complicate things. If you want my money, fix that.Anything I buy also must be easy to incorporate into my setting and work into my existing plots. Maybe this new locale kit from WotC will fit that. They are becoming more practical in their lines. I just bought Heroes of Battle, and I did a virtual thumb-through before buying it at my FLGS. I'm very happy with it, but I would not have bought it sight unseen. Amazon has a good start, and some publishers on RPGNow do a decent job as well, but I'd really like to see the whole thing rather than an excerpt. I might be interested in a book for a specific rule that isn't in the excerpt. Let us see the whole thing; show some faith in your product and in your prospective customers. I won't buy protected PDFs, but I wouldn't mind a free time-bombed version that I can look at for a few days before deciding whether to buy.I don't want to use it without buying it, but I don't want to buy it if I can't use it. :npy:</blockquote>

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