JZavoda wrote:
On a side note what was the English show that All in the Family was based on? (Was it Rising Damp?)

I always thought All in the family was heavy left-wing propaganda  myself, but that's just me.

Another show that wouldn't work in the USA would be 'House of Cards" three British TV movies, I think that was the title. It's done from the villains point of view with cool asides to the audience. The first two are excellent and the third seems to have been made to PC the series because the villain was way to succesful. Can't have the bad guy win.

The English series was called "Till Death Do Us Part". From what I understand from reading about it, it was a little rougher and darker than even the American version.

There's no doubt Meathead and Gloria's POV is often presented as the "rational" pov to Archie's rantings.  But there are quite a few episodes where Michael Stivik's left wing leanings are made fun of, or he's shown to be a hypocrite.  Just off the top of my head, he protests his wife Gloria working (even though he's supposedly a huge women's lib supporter) because the MAN is the breadwinner of the family; there's the time he lets his friend live with them whose even leftier than he and Gloria are and they end up throwing him out because he's even farther left than them, then the classic episode where the black burglars hold them hostage (I think one is played by Cleavon Little) and Mike attempts to justify their criminal tendencies by saying they are poor and black and live in the ghetto, and one of the robbers sneers to him "What do YOU know about that?".  

Funny stuff, and very edgy for the time.  I also was surprised at the amount of violence in this show which I doubt sitcoms would show today in a comedy.  There is Edith's near rape, a jewish neighbor is blown up in his car outside their house by anti-semitics, and in one episode Mike and his transvestite friend are stabbed by muggers, killing the friend, who had actually been on a few episodes (going by memory here, I haven't seen reruns in years). Imagine someone trying to rape Ray Romano's mom in Everyone Loves Raymond, or the Friend's cast having to confront the fact a gay friend is beaten to death outside their apartment, or one of Charlie Sheen's girlfriends drowning on the beach in an episode of Two and a Half Men.  Never would happen.

I'll have to catch House of Cards...looks really cool from the bits and pieces I've seen.  

Mike B.

Aneoth wrote:cgi.ebay.co.uk/Chainmail-3rd-ed-TSR-rul ... dZViewItem

All of his items seem to be in very nice condition.
The seller also placed an ad in the Acaeum Classifieds, but some folks here may not look at the classified ads.

He started his listing VERY high on the Chainmail (TOO high IMO)
100 (USD+/-)  seems too high to me for this book.
It is a Nice looking 3rd Chainmail (Dont know which printing though)

He also has a VERY NICE looking Greyhawk 8th print and a good looking 5th White Box Set with no Reference/Errata sheets.

so anny...er...how is he infringing copyright?

Being new to the forum, I wasnt around for much of the posts in the thread, and all the old links are dead.  

Im curious as to what are the most common violation of copyright infringements?  discs full of scanned books?  scans of old and out of print books and mods?  ever see fake books or anything like that?  if someone were selling a new T shirt with the vintage TSR logo is that copyright infringement?

The thought of policing EBAY for WOC is a bit odd, I think.

** expired/removed eBay auction **


Is this a PDF-style compilation? If so, I'll buy it up and report it as counterfeit.

A few people have asked if these are PDF's.   They are not.  



These DATASETS were created by CODE MONKEY PUBLISHING and LICENSED by WOTC officially.   They allowed no open sourced books (see above list) to have datasets created for them to allow software character creation programs to utilize that material LEGALLY.   Code Monkey lost the license to sell datasets last year I believe and they have given final notice that no more updates will be made for the PCGEN and ETOOLS datasets as of NOVEMBER 2008.  

It is unlikely that another update for teh ETOOLS datasets will occur.   PCGEN is currently up to version 5.13 I believe.  The PCGEN datasets only work to 5.12 (You can still donwload) .   They or some third party are working on a script to allow them to run in version 5.13 of PCGEN.  Code Monkey might or Might not update these datasets before the end.  

In either case these datasets allow you to create characters / monsters / NPC's etc using the material from these books legally.

I'm selling software that I purchased.  I am legally and rightfully entitled to.

hi, you should be aware that there are some jerks at The Acaeum about to give you a hard time. about348-1660.html Jul-06-08
A:   Why, I'm releasing all rights to the datasets to the new owner. These aren't PDF's.

So, anyone want to fess up to being the whining P-wuss?  

Mike B.

Badmike wrote:So, anyone want to fess up to being the whining P-wuss?.

Radovarl?

Wow, just saw the auction was removed.  Never mind.