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Mod note: So the thing you may not see is that what you are telling folks is that being a woman ruins something. That... is kind of insulting. Be aware of that, please. In the meantime, I will refer everyone here to the site's inclusivity policy. Make folks feel uncomfortable, or become too...

I don't. I think it unfair for a third party (you or me) to insert ethical bindings after the fact. If the creator of a work wants to bind someone to giving back to the movement, they can do that. They can choose a license that legally binds giving back. So, who are you or I to gainsay...

Yep. I daresay the minis line wouldn't get a whole lot of attention online if all the sculpts went with the most obvious interpretations of their originals. A little bit of reinterpretation on one, and we are suddenly all talking about it.

Absolutes are challenged with one counter example. Generalizations allow some exceptions.

It isn't an architecture issue when you use a hammer as a screwdriver.

Less "cannot" and more "probably won't". There is nothing stopping them from continuing to sell or broadening access to legacy content. That's just a business decision, not a legal or technical issue.

This thread has devolved into a bunch of folks who are not IP lawyers arguing over IP law. Thread closed.

Mod Note: There's some stuff in the past couple of pages that got a bit heated. I'm here to tell folks that they need to stay respectful, and that if they can't do that, disengaging is likely preferable to the consequences of blowing up at each other.

It is okay to be affected as you are affected. You get to feel what you feel, "should" be darned. You've got a right sea of troubles there. I am not a mental health professional. But to my understanding of stress and depression, cases where there's one clearly identifiable "it" are pretty...

There's a lot of pages here, and I haven't read them all, so maybe someone else has already said this, but if not it ought to be raised: The above is not okay. Ultimatums like what your wife presented are a form of emotional blackmail, pushing all responsibility for dealing with the situation...

You probably still want "content keys" for the SRD content - or how else do you reference that a character has an SRD class, and subclass with a specific ability that references a specific spell on D&DB? When you want to show or reference the mechanics, you want those keys, right? Aside - this...

Well, right there we see part of the issue. Assume that each bit of game-rule content (like a race, a class, a subclass, a monster, a spell, etc) is identified with some key for use by the software. I don't know that is how the architecture works, but let us assume it. Let us also assume you...

With all due respect, you have asserted that you know how to extract content from a file. You have not demonstrated that you know what the WotC/D&DB full process for standing up an a la carte product is, end to end. I am sure I don't know that process. Admitting it isn't hard or damaging...

No. Do you know the difference between precision and accuracy? To say that the value of Pi is "about 3" is accurate. But it is imprecise. To say that the value of Pi is "3.2527037..." is precise, but inaccurate. False precision can be misleading, and lead us to passing judgements that are...

Shrug. Fine. Your experiences are different from mine. What do you want out of noting that fact? Where is this supposed to go, as a conversation?