Re: 200th member! Great.

["jcorey30" <jcorey30@yahoo.com>]

This is certainly interesting.  Particularly the part where WoTC went 
after the Star Frontiers guy.  I think that is the nail in the coffin 
of publishing a rules compendium.  That is really unfortunate.

I think there are other ways I can contribute to the game...

Thanks for everyone's input!

--- In dq-rules@y..., "brainz_at_ti" <morbius@c...> wrote:
> 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?