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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 3514580" data-attributes="member: 8461">I was looking at the website of <a href="http://gd-tangent.tsunami-art.com/" target="_blank">Fred Perry</a>, a favorite comic artist of mine, and noticed that his latest work had the header "Tome of Psionics."Curious, I checked out the art, and after looking through the site, found several pieces of artwork by him that are supposedly for this book, dated <a href="http://gd-tangent.tsunami-art.com/view.aspx?Rec=183#DIV3155" target="_blank">March 19th</a>, <a href="http://gd-tangent.tsunami-art.com/view.aspx?Rec=189#DIV3177" target="_blank">March 28th</a>, and <a href="http://gd-tangent.tsunami-art.com/view.aspx#DIV3405" target="_blank">May 1st</a> of this year. Apparently, these are all pieces being commissioned by the book's author, Chad Hale.However, Mr. Hale made several comments below each pic, and judging from the tone of several of them, this seems like his own bizarre pipe dream. Here's a few quotes from Mr. Hale that made me dubious about his project:"purchase an offical license from WOTC"? You don't "purchase" the D&D license from WotC. To the best of my knowledge, WotC doesn't buy unsolicited works from freelancers, but get freelancers to work on the projects they develop in-house. Of course, perhaps Mr. Hale realized this later, as future posts indicate he's talking to other companies.Well, I already thought we had a "legitimate" psionics system, and I'm not sure that "everyone" wants another one. Of course, how murky he seems on the difference between D&D and other d20 companies is also disturbing. He seems to be only somewhat aware of how the industry works.Apparently he hadn't heard that Pathfinder is a book, not a magazine, and it won't have advertising in it.But what upset me most was this quote:Okay, now I'm ticked. So he's claiming that the 3.0 PsiHB was plagiarized from the 3.0 PHB, and the 3.0 psionic Malhavoc books were stolen from content on the WotC and Malhavoc message boards? This isn't just insanity, but it's a serious (not to mention groundless) accusation. And that's to say nothing of the arrogance this guy is displaying here (which seems quite unfounded, if spelling is any guideline). In all honesty, if this book ever even came out I'm not sure I'd buy it just because the above accusations are rather insulting to some authors that I really admire.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> Anyway, I just wanted to make you guys aware of this.EDIT: I've cross-posted this over at the <a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=845143" target="_blank">WotC</a> and <a href="http://p222.ezboard.com/fokayyourturnfrm16.showMessage?topicID=1206.topic" target="_blank">Malhavoc</a> message boards.</blockquote>

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