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wait, wasn't one of the strength of 3e getting rid of all the "illogical" rules in the previous edition? so why is now cool to reintroduce designers' arbiter?!?

as a foreigner speaker: please do correct improper english usage and spelling!!! it's the only way one can improve, after a certain point! it doesn't matter if it's a bit disheartening: better that than looking illiterate in the long run! :)

i don't know, though... is people buying the first edition of warhammer? from what i can see from ebay, the very few copies in circulation are nowhere near a price that would be worth storing 2 or 3 copies in a good, safe, dry place away from the sun for 10 years. i know the prices might vary...

and it's exactly this that i don't like, regardles of what they might or might not gain, or whether or not it's likely to happen. i don't see why i have to ask to "steal" their ideas and they don't with mine. :) these links have two effects: 1. disprove my perception that creative people have...

that's for you to prove, if you think you have a case. and that's for them to argue, if they have a clear conscience. i think that at the base of what we are discussing here lies a question as old as civilization: what are laws for? i think there will be some agreement that original idea...

probably. i still see how the public would be divided, though. to cite some examples of unfair uses of IP and copyright laws, i could cite food corporations copyrighting rice in india and forbidding people to grow plants (like they have for centuries... they are, in fact, the owners of the IP...

i agree again... but isn't it so because normally the companies pay for use your IP because otherwise they wouldn't have access for it, whereas a fan think that he can get away with "rebranding" your ideas for his? if a company had access to your IP and didn't even have to ask for your...

not really, because you would have to prove that you own the IP contained in their products. in other words, as yourself put it but that doesn't mean that you can claim that you have ownership of their IP. i would *love* to read about this case. do you have a source?

i get your point, but i think the situation here is a bit different because of SRD. without it, i couldn't publish a d20 book without having written permission from WotC or whoever owns the copyrights. unsurprisingly, there has never been a flood of warhammer supplements on the market... whereas...

who is this?!?! the crazy thing is that i firmly believe that most creative people are not interested too much in someone else "stealing" their ideas and giving them a new spin. i am one, and i have no such problem. very very very few (if any... i can't remember one single case, but there...

but you forget that we didn't handed them a contract saying: "if we buy your books, you are hereby forced to published the SRD, which we will be using at our leisure and for free". that was a business decision that they took freely and without any pressure. a wise business decision, because D&D...

funny how this little logical argument never seems to cut it, in these discussions... :)

i always find fascinating how people are happy to give away their rights and then be shocked and pissed off when they realise what they've done. according to the international laws of copyright, you have total right over the distribution, reproduction and use of your intellectual work. this...

some say that swords were invented because (and after) someone invented the shield. what does it mean, in this case? that the average joe the gamer might have never dreamed to sue WotC because feat X looked like feat Y that he "published" on their forum, but he might be aware that he could now...

maybe that's the way it was in germany. as far as i know, this was introduced in italy way into the 2000s, and adopted by the EU after heavy lobbying from the majors. again, i am not a legal expert and what i know might be wrong.

my bad, you are right, but the phrase "The foregoing grants shall include the right to exploit any proprietary rights in such User Content, including but not limited to rights under copyright, trademark, service mark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction." is not that completely away...

which is what happens with knowledgeable players. it's another story if you are trying to teach the game to newbies that have no desire to read a 300 page manual to have some fun when they could just go down the pub and watch the match or chat the waitress up. or read harry potter. or /watch/...

if i remeber well, wizards used to have a forum for house rules, too... a wisdom that you gathered from what sources? don't tell me it's from the posts on enworld, because you just said that these forums attracts tinkerers. i prefer to go with my own experience: 2e: tons of houserules from...

to each his own, i guess. the fact that the combat is much less rule free and quick? it's funny that when people talk about "freeform" they mention character creation, when instead they should be talking about the actual mechanics of the game. AD&D was more combat heavy. AD&D got also core...

completely out of topic, but that is the best quote i have ever seen in years. seriously.