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I completley agree with this, and having talked to somebody with HASBRO just after the acquisition of Avalon Hill, they were(and probably still are) very much about collecting all of the primary IP ou ...

Oh the humanity! Somebody might need to cut the guy after that combination. Wink

I don't have a lot of respect for corporate leaders who run their companies into the ground. And it looks like ...

hmm.

further research on Gary Leeds:

his jobs listed prior to assuming the mantle of leadership at WoTC include:

* General Manager at Samsonite
* Marketing Director at Pr ...

From the interview, their primary concern seems to be the pirating of 4th edition books; while by their numbers 10% of all downloads of the PHbII put money in their pocket, they thought it would be be ...

I was hoping one of the EttRoG authors would pop in here and say, "Oh, that was an editorial error. I meant __________." Still, rasgon's reasoning seems sound (as usual).

Not likely. I recently r ...

there was a LOT of history behind the events leading up to and eventually including the Temple of Elemental evil. It wasn't as simplistic as 'good vs evil', it involved a political kidnapping, politi ...

The thief adds nothing creative to the work. He does not respect its entry into the world of cultural philanthropy. And I doubt he's doing it for the altruistic notion of "Information should be free" ...

WoTC forum reps are really cracking the whip on their discussion board(s). they're going pretty hard nose on any post that might even walk CLOSE to thinking about a positive attitude towards supporti ...

What affect does this have on WotC's other online features? I'm sure that DDI will be hacked, in fact I've seen a potential release on one of the torrent sites - but will this work? I'm unsure of the ...

With WotC doing away with the "legal" aspect of their products - how far underground are they going to drive the PDF file sharing? How underground is it now? Is it realitvely easy for a neophyte to fi ...

Yeah, I expect you're probably right. Sadly, our history also shows that government crackdowns in response to activity like this end up helping no one in the final analysis, while hurting basically ev ...

If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on WotC wanting to distribute the .pdf files themselves.

They'll get into some moderately serious legal troubles for going about it in this manner then. ...

But what disturbs me, is that I suspect this latest move by Hasbro is part of a long term strategy by big intellectual property companies to get government to pass increasingly restrictive laws to lim ...

Nobody faults them for wanting to stop piracy; we fault them for their staggering ignorance of technology.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Given just how boneheaded and stupid this move i ...

Ninja'd before I could edit. Yes, people will complain about the move to do this, but you can't really blame WotC for doing this(3.5 and otherwise). They have to draw the line somewhere, and so they ...

I understand that they think they can stop piracy. But the fact is, they won't. Buy making legal content available with super restrictive DRM will turn off buyers (me for one) because we don't want th ...

Actually one of the greatest things that I have read about 4th edition and why I will probably pick it up when it comes out is my gripe about 3rd edition. They are severing the tie between equipment v ...

The article gives the impression there isn't going to be a Nyrond or Keoland or Great Kingdom in its vision. Rather, that the entire landscape is the Wild Coast. I think that would be rather impla ...

True that Telas.

I myself like aspects of the Points of Light doctrine. I don't believe that it can be applied uniformaly all over the Flanaess. Areas such as around Greyhawk would be pretty safe, ...

Can anyone give me a brief synopis? I refuse to register as a D&D insider on that site just so I can read a single article.

Perhaps handing out classic black arm bands or black ribbons along with the proposed sheet so players can mourn LG demise and show support for GH.

Oh sure, if you wanted to be tasteful and under ...

If you hold a gathering at an informal location such a pub would it be for certain people or anyone who visits the Canonfire booth? The main reason I ask is that some people who might like to particip ...

I'd be happy to help plan the seminar and to enter is as an official seminar, too. Perhaps we should entitle is "After the Ashes" or somesuch? since by then the setting will be officially "dead" (lik ...

Kord must be totally ashamed to call this cleric a testimony to his religion.
The action the cleric took reflects on Kord. As a result of this terrible transgression, news of it has reached my World ...

As much as I respect Eileen's perspective, in my opinion (and it's JUST my opinion so take it for what you will) demons are over used. I much prefer to see an innocent fall under the sway of the mace ...

I'm a DM & I'm running the Exp to the Demonweb Pit. My group consists of 2 good aligned Pc's & 2 neutral aligned Pc's. They found a cursed item-a Mace of Blood (DM's guide, must be coated in b ...

I agree that it isn't feasible to support older systems. I guess in my idea, I don't see it as supporting older systems, but supporting campaign worlds. But, that's just a difference in vision.

WoT ...

Its official, LG is dead, Living Realms to take over in 2008...

http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=908402

Bryan Blumklotz
AKA Saracenus

Living Greyhawk has been the face of organized ...

They don't think the setting is dead. They think its not cost effective to actively promote more than 1 or 2 game worlds because a "greyhawk book" or a "forgotten realms book" will both sell less wel ...

What Blue said. As long we are here to talk endlessly about stuff and complain about the young'uns and their new fangled technology and computers and fashions and theory of relativity and all that mod ...

"Greyhawk will not be default setting in core
We want to leverage the assets of the assumed parts of a D&D world – Mordenkainen, Bigby, Vecna, Llolth, Tiamat, Asmodeus, etc. However, we also want ...

One thing does intice me, just a little; 4E is going to be released "campaign neutral", no "core" setting. WotC will be updating various worlds, one per year, starting with the Misbegotten Realms ( : ...

Although I'm not happy to see 4E cmoing out so soon, WotC is a COMPANY in the business of making money. And you all know that a new edition was inevitable. I just wanted to milk 3E/3.5 a little long ...

On the other hand, the solution used in Expedition (evil parallel universe) is much more interesting than the clone theory from Oerth Journal, since there are any number of adventures that can be had ...

I suspect that they want the opportunity to keep Castle Greyhawk, the first-ever mega-dungeon, in the mix for potential products down the road without being forced to also publish the entire campaign ...

Anyway, here's hoping that last minute ill-advised change doesn't ruin too many people's enjoyment of the book. It goes without saying that we would have loved more space to play with, but you get wha ...

But, when you get down to it, Greyhawk IS owned by WotC, so they can do with it as they wish. I think having the Castle move out of the world is a terrible idea, personally, and for fans of the settin ...

Or legal ones. Dungeonland and 'Land Beyond the Magic Mirror' are both free downloads from the WotC website. 'Isle of the Ape' is $4.00 at paizo.com.

well presumably so, yes. I just point out th ...

1. How much info is there about the City of Greyhawk? I have the box sets so I don't really need much.

There's a general map of the city, and a small area is better detailed (river quarter). B ...

I finished my primary read-thru tonight. I'll read it again tomorrow.

First impressions:

Less of a 'campaign book' and more like 'campaign sketch book'. Lots of material, skimpy on detail. So ...

The difference bewteen a site covering their rear with a forum TOS and this business is Gleemax wants to encourage you to let them pick your brain. I have a feeling this will garner alot of cooperatio ...

Paizo has a similar policy when it pertains to posting content on their message boards and the reasoning is simply to protect themselves from those posters who might sue them later on claiming that ...

Now I'm starting to think it might be best if nobody even mentions CF on the gleemax ( /me gacks ) site at all. Best to stay under their radar.

I may seem paranoid, but it seems preferable to inc ...

So if I post something on the Gleemax site, WoTC says they get to keep it? Even if it belongs to someone else?

I think i'm gonna start posting song lyrics and guitar tabs on the site and let WoTC ...

That aside, paizo did a fairly good job of producing material for those of us who aren't fortunate enough to be on the living greyhawk mailing list.

The LG mailing list has no content, it's a dis ...

Note - I intentionally left out "Funny Castle Greyhawk" but its a fifth iteration if you want to count it.

Good thinking! That book is practically a cursed item. The Castle Greyhawk of Sillines ...

plan on getting it, whether I plan on running it anytime soon is another question. I hear that it might try to fix some of the Robilar stuff (it was an assassin in disguise? Mind control? one can onl ...

I use my Fujitsu Lifebook all the time. I use both Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access for my games. I have a rather extensive database I use as well for tracking all sorts of game data. I have a ...

Not sure if this is the 'proper' forum for this discussion but it's 2am and this is lookn' kinda friendly.

Does anyone else (other than me, obviously) use a computer when they play? When I run, I ...

Having done some research on the Baron myself I'll save you some time and let you know that DRG #299 and the Living Onnwal Gazetteer have got bupkis in the wasy of solid information on Lum. They just ...

w00t!

thanks!

...but I need to do some research on Lum the Mad. Can anyone point me towards background material on the odd fellow with a machine fixation? The search function has failed me.

any help is appreci ...

We've recently lost Canonfire's primary article publisher, Greyson (Dongul).

The publishing task has more or less fallen to me (Farcluun). I have unfortunately been extremely busy with some person ...

I think it is because GVD has been busy with life. I do have to admit that the slow pace of publication is discouraging to submittal, but hey, they just put up summer breeze, so I am happy. :shades ...

The Age of Worms is detailed in

Not to put too fine a point on it, but for those of chaotic neutral alignment or less - most of the Age of Worms issues of Dungeon magazine could be found via a s ...

Yes, I'm currently running the Savage Tide adventures. Half the group is unfamiliar with D&D, the rest are long time world of greyhawk players. So far, i'm 4 adventures into the campaign and no ...