Xaxaxe wrote:Good news for followers of this thread: eBay appears set to roll out a "Report This Item" feature:

April 2006

At least this will save some time when reporting an item, although it doesn't do anything to address eBay's often-mystifying item-removal policies. The entire process needed some streamlining, though, and this sounds like a good first step.

That's excellent news.  The old procedure was rather cumbersome and took slow-witted folk like me a while to find.  

This ass too....

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DD

Another idiot for you, Deadlord.

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DD

Got it.

D&D Dungeons Miniatures | eBay

For you old school players out there running 1st and 2nd Edition games there are modules free to download for many different campaign setting like Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Al-Qadim, Greyhawk, Mystara, Savage Coast, and Spelljammer. Here is a partial list of what is available:

 Maztica

 FMA1, Fires of Zatal

 FMA2, Endless Armies

 FMQ1, City of Gold

 OA5, Mad Monkey vs. the Dragon Claws

 OA6, Ronin Challenge

 OA7, Test of the Samurai

 The Horde

 Lands of Intrigue

 Cormanthyr

 Savage Frontier

 Gold and Glory

 Elminster's Ecologies, Appendix 1

 Elminster's Ecologies, Appendix 2

 Four From Cormyr

 Castle Spulzeer

 Cult of the Dragon

 For Duty and Deity

 City of Ravens Bluff

 Calimport

 Arcane Age: Netheril--Empire of Magic

 Volo's Guide to the North

 Marco Volo: Departure

 Marco Volo: Journey

 Marco Volo: Arrival

 Volo's Guide to Cormyr

 Dungeon Crawl: Undermountain--The Lost Level

 Vilhon Reach

 Volo's Guide to the Dalelands

 Dungeon Crawl: Undermountain--Maddgoth's Castle

 Volo's Guide to All Things Magical

 Dungeon Crawl: Undermountain--Stardock

 How the Mighty Are Fallen

 Villain's Lorebook

 The Fall of Myth Drannor

 The North

I10 Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill

Palace of the Silver Princess (B3)

Dungeonland and The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror (EX1 & EX2)



I have spent countless hours searching the internet for D&D material, now all my hard work can be yours by winning this auction.

I have 14 pages of links that add up to a TON of useful material available, and more gets added all the time. It will take you months to look at it all! I have used a lot of this info during my campaigns and they have added SO much to our adventures. My players have LOVED the new stuff! It is important to note that the info that comes along with the book is only links to where you can download them for FREE, not the actual info. For example: you would open the word file quickly look for the of information you want and then click on a link that will take you over the internet to where you would then download the material to your computer FREE. It is VERY, VERY easy to use and well organized. Anyone able to understand how to play Dungeons and Dragons would have no trouble using the links pages.







Many of my buyers have told me they think the bonus info was worth more than what they have paid for the book alone!



This links page is free for the winner of the auction ONLY IF THE FINAL  SELLING PRICE IS $15 OR MORE FOR THE BOOK. IF YOU USE "BUY IT NOW" YOU WILL GET THE LINKS AND A SET OF GAME DICE WITH THE BOOK!!!

Actually, I would probably be willing to pay $5 for the list of clickable internet links, so long as it was all legal.  The time saved would be worth it.

Unless they have radically changed the copyright laws since I was publishing, (I'm 99.9998% sure they haven't) selling PDFs is no different than selling a set of photocopies. It is stealing someone else's intellectual property, like bootlegging CDs or DVDs.

The law is quite clear; third parties may not profit from reproducing other persons' intellectual property without express permission.

We used to seize those copy sets at every con we went to; if the people griped or bitched about it, we told them to try and sue us. NO ONE ever did...

Now selling links is not illegal. Even if you sell links to illegally copied materials, the copyright holder would have to prove that you knew it was illegal and intended to profit by its distribution, and even then, in the UK you wouldn't be able to make that stick.

It is completely different distributing copyrighted material under the law in the UK. Hell, under Scottish law someone is allowed to own as much pirated materials as he likes. There is nothing illegal about it. In order to prosecute, one has to prove intent to distribute for profit, and that has to be predicated by a physical action.

This is exactly what I wanted to see when I came home from work  today:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Check out the Q&A on my Jade Hare auction and look at my response. God am I irritated right now.          I really should have blasted him, but I figured I would be better of not stooping.