200th member! Great.

["brainz_at_ti" <morbius@cyberone.com.au>]

I think it's great that the DQPA has had nearly 200 folks join. How 
many are still active? How many have joined in the last two years?

I usually monitor the Town Halls Forum, but that's been very quiet 
for the last couple of months.

I've also been watching the problems that the Star Frontiers groups 
have been going through with WoTC. One fellow who was authorised by 
TSR to create and distribute PDFs of the SF stuff, on the condition 
that he send a copy to TSR, was branded a pariah and thief by WoTC, 
until he proved that he had been authorised. That web-site has now 
disappeared.

We tend to look at groups that we are interested in, and ignore what 
is happening in others - that's life. If WoTC is still clamping down 
of folks in other groups that they have previously authorised, it 
would pay for us to re-examine and have ready, our own letters of 
permission.

Eric, I think that you will find that the material that you sought 
permission to use, and the people that you gave credit to is fair. 
The SF site posted all of that too, and it's gone now. The whole DQ 
community, and especially new members need to be reminded or 
informed of that.

FYI, the guy who got the nasty gram from WoTC was reported by 
another member of the SF community, who wrote direct to the WoTC 
legal eagles, and didn't even bother to tell or ask the site owner. 
The first he knew was a letter from WoTC. The tone that was used in 
the letters and emails he later recieved was less than polite.

Has there been a change in policy in WoTC about older games on the 
net?