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Message: <blockquote data-quote="martinlochsen" data-source="post: 7661425" data-attributes="member: 6789094">Having a legal right to do something doesn't make it morally right, and it does not make it wise. I know this is a tired old argument, but Paizo is handling cases like this in a very different way, and they are making a lot of money. You don't have to beat down on your fans to make money. Really. And for the record, I'm talking primarily about the Pathguy site here.Pathguy is someone who has contributed to the community and to the hobby for a very long time with his generators for all editions of the game, right. And now, suddenly, it all gets taken down in one sweep. Originally, he also removed his Pathfinder generators because the letters he got demanded that as well. But after a few days, those were back up. The generators are very much alike, in terms of how much copyrighted content they contain. So what does that tell you? Paizo don't mind. That's what it tells you. They have a completely different business model based on giving their fans easy access to their stuff instead of hoarding it and proteting it like a gluttonous dragon.And I'm not a Paizo fanboy either. I played Pathfinder for two years and I didn't like it. For many reasons. It's not really relevant, but this is the sort of thing some people get hung up on, you know.I can easily understand the logic behind these actions. With the rules of the game freely available on the net, the extra character options presented in the PHB will be it's main selling point. The pathguy site did give people the opportunity to enjoy those extra options without buying the book. It is an understandable, but unwise and really quite cowardly act to shut it down. Paizo has all of their material (sourcebooks and everything) available for free on their website. They sell their books in easily pirateable pdf-format.  And they are still selling those same books like crazy, to the point of becoming the leading company in the industry.So my real point here is just that I think Wizards is choosing the wrong tactic here, being to scared of the digital reality. And I'm not really angry or anything. I see that they are within their rights to do everything that they are doing. It's just very, very frustrating being a fan of a game that is being supported by a company that seems more interested in protecting their property than giving us players what we want and need to play the game. When I heard the news about the free Basic rules, I was really surprised and happy. I thought they had decided on a new direction for their marketing tactics. Now I see that I was wrong, and it makes me both a bit disillusioned and disappointed.I will still play 5e to death though, because I love it.---edit: Added spaces between paragraphs, for readability <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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