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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 1870403" data-attributes="member: 14159">I know, one thing that currently irritates me about RPG fandom are the self appointed amateur Copyright lawyers who love to nitpick and shoot holes in fan projects done in goodwill towards the community and in good faith attempts to follow the law.In my case, I once posted my homemade Dark*Matter to d20 Modern conversion to the web.  I'd made it originally as notes for my home campaign, but after I had put several hundred hours into the project (a pair of .pdf's about 65 pages long in total) I realized other people might want to see it, I made a good faith effort to follow existing protocols and practices for releasing conversions as I understood them.  When I made mention of this on message boards, all the comments I ever got were hostile remarks about how suchandsuch wasn't properly documented in the Section 15 of my OGL, or how this one line was improper PI.  Plenty of comments, all of which were hostile amateur legal advice and not one word ever on the quality of the actual writing or wanting to talk about the substance.  It certainly left me with an ill taste of trying to share my hard work with d20 fandom in general.  Honestly, when did being a gamer require that one be an expert in copyright law, and that one has to consult a lawyer every time somebody wants to share their ideas with someone else?</blockquote>