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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ren1999" data-source="post: 7660931" data-attributes="member: 85179">If people are taking Wizard's intellectual property and making money off of it then it is perfectly o.k. for Wizards to send a Cease and Desist notice to them and get the application removed.If fans are making no money off of a D&D5 online tool they created and Wizards has no official alternative, then that is terribly evil for Wizards to send a Cease and Desist notice to the fans and force them to remove the application.The fact that the Wizards legal department doesn't know the difference is what really bothers me here.I'll tell this story again in case you haven't heard it. FOX network's legal department went around the entire Internet and forced its Simpson's fans to remove images of Homer and Bart. Those fans were promoting the Simpsons animated tv show to people all over the world. Those fans were helping the Simpson's show. But the legal department didn't understand that. Yes the show is still running, no thanks to the viscious embarrassing punishment of its fans by those who made the show.Wizards seems to me to be an unethical disloyal group that does not respect its employees who created the game, nor does it respect its fans that spent years playtesting the game for free, nor does it respect fans such as Pathguy who put out a Character Generator to help people create characters and navigate through the game and learn how to play it. The Player's Handbook does a very poor job organizing and ordering the steps of character creation.If you have your own company, never punish your fans for producing something that promotes your product or producing something that you don't have, such as an online character generator. That is just basic business sense. Something Wizards doesn't seem to have seeing as how the 5E game system was designed by the fans and Wizards botched the editing, formating and even the quality of the books.But I will step down off the pulpit now. It is foolish of me to expect Wizards to make a good product when they gave us 4th Edition.</blockquote>

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