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Message: <blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 3471088" data-attributes="member: 924">TSR wasn't a very fan friendly company in its later days. Most notably, they didn't really allow fan sites, they wanted to restrict any fan D&D material to certain TSR controlled sites.  It wasn't just the litigation that they threatened people with, it was the viciousness with how they went about it, and how they defended their actions via their netrep.  To this day, I have a grudge against the guy who did all of this (who is now a prominent d20 designer, actually). The only reason I ever came back to D&D was because his replacement (Jim Butler) was super-niceWe're already starting to see some of that behavior with WOTC these days. For instance, someone's D&D/M:TG conversion was apparently removed from the net.  I wouldn't be surprised if it's a matter of time before we see all D&D fansite removed from the net.  While certainly within WOTC's legal rights, since they are derivative works of their owned material, 99% of companies don't care as long as its just fan stuff, not commercial stuff, since happy fans tend to buy stuff. The only other company that cares is Palladium.There was some disappointment after WOTC bought out TSR and didn't save those worlds or whatever that were favorites of TSR fans (like say, Birthright), but it was their net policy that really caused the anger. And oh yeah, when TSR had their money troubles, they refused to admit anything other than "printer problems". I would guess that google's usenet archives (formerly Deja Vu) goes back that far, if you are really interested and want to pick through things.</blockquote>

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