Unearthed Arcana 3.5....where besides Kazaa?

[Nightfall]

Kazaa,

Where cheap a$$ gamers get their books.

 

[Ottergame]

I do my shopping on WinMX!

j/k!

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Of course, the enforcement of at least one of those dependancy clauses isn't enforced.

There's at least one mainstream d20 product (with the d20 logo) that includes rules for Character Generation...

Which one?

(If you are talking about BESM d20, it technically doesn't include the full rules for Character Generation, though in practice it is dead easy to do away with the stuff you need from the PHB...)

 

[Ranger REG]

Kazaa,

Where cheap a$$ gamers get their books.

Hey! I'm a cheap SOB! But even I wouldn't touch Kazaa with a 20-foot telephone pole.

 

[Gez]

With that title, I thought it was someone complaining he wasn't able to find UA in any shop he tried...

 

[Ranger REG]

All I ask is you shop around for the best bargain price. Some offered on the internet, perhaps allow you to pay by mail order or check, if you don't have a plastic.

 

[JimAde]

It's just a matter of time before somebody goes to the trouble of typing in all the OGC stuff from UA, makes a PDF and puts it on RPGNow for $5.00. As soon as that happens, somebody else will dissect the PDF and post it on the web.

Since it's OGC this is, I believe, legal (except maybe the dissecting the PDF part). WotC, of all people, know the consequences of making so much of the content Open. Lots of people will still buy the book for the same reason they buy the PH and DMG: Nice, hardcover books are a lot easier and more pleasant to game with.

Oh, and it would probably be more expensive to print it yourself.

 

[SSquirrel]

Actually, it's PERFECTLY legal to post OGC online. It's open content -- you can do whatever you like with it.

It's NOT legal to, for example, scan pages of the book and post those online. But you can certainly type out the OGC and put it up on a webpage if you like. That's sorta the point. You have to include the OGL, of course, but other than that there are no other conditions attached to the distribution of open content. Refer to Section 2 of the Open Gaming License.

Thank you. Considering lately my job doesn't pay me enough to pay for y house let alone other things like D&D books, I have to make do with what I can until I can afford to buy the book. This is my way of browsing the contents of the book at home instead of at Barnes & NOble, so I can see if it's really a book I WANT to buy. I believe it will be, but if my perusal doesn't prove it to be so I will delete it and not worry about it.

So everyone who just wanted to flame me for being cheap can piss off. Unless you wanna pay my bills for me that is.

Hagen

 

[Chainsaw Mage]

Thank you. Considering lately my job doesn't pay me enough to pay for y house let alone other things like D&D books, I have to make do with what I can until I can afford to buy the book. This is my way of browsing the contents of the book at home instead of at Barnes & NOble, so I can see if it's really a book I WANT to buy. I believe it will be, but if my perusal doesn't prove it to be so I will delete it and not worry about it.

So everyone who just wanted to flame me for being cheap can piss off. Unless you wanna pay my bills for me that is.

Hagen

WotC would say that if you can't afford to purchase their books then you don't have the right to own them. Unless someone gives you one as a gift, of course.

This whole "I'm poor so that's why I illegally download PDFs" argument really doesn't make a lot of sense, if you think about it.

 

[Len]

WotC would say that if you can't afford to purchase their books then you don't have the right to own them. Unless someone gives you one as a gift, of course.

This whole "I'm poor so that's why I illegally download PDFs" argument really doesn't make a lot of sense, if you think about it.

You seem to have entirely missed the point that it's not illegal! WotC and their lawyers have had their say, and what they said is that anyone can copy and re-publish most of the text of UA.

It's Open Content. Get used to it.