mbassoc2003 wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:Great site and great PDFs.Do you e-mail the original authors and ask if you can publish their stuff? Or do you rely on 'fair use'?
mbassoc2003 wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:Great site and great PDFs.That said, there has never been a successful legal claim that I can see in either the UK or the US over someone claiming their IP were infringed by someone else publishing a PDF of their book. Maybe successful C&D letters head litigation off at the pass. But practically everything is already available for free, so where is the harm in presenting it in a more useful manner?
mbassoc2003 wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:but I guess it was too much hassle for the sake of securing sales and limiting propagation of the work. There appears to be no such thing as an author who protects his IP. Free advertising I guess.
mbassoc2003 wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:One day I may add PDFs to http://www.afterglow2.com, but I just don't know that I could do it without the IP owners approval, and those whom I have tracked down and asked have all said no.
mbassoc2003 wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:From a US perspective, when you have big established publishers like Troll Lord Games, Frog God Games, Goodman Games, Wizards of the Coast etc. and they all have every single one of their published products available online in single locations for download for free, many of these products not being formally released in PDF form via online resellers, then it can only be a decision by these big companies not to pursue of cease the free distribution of their PDFs.
robertsconley wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:Nobody I know gives their tacit permission for any of this sharing to exist. Rather folks tend to do what is practical and not get bent about the rest.
robertsconley wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:For the minors and folks like myself. We all pretty much operate at the sufferance of our fanbase. And have to basically win our customers person by person. The reality of today's economy is that the most precious resource is attention. But when you have it and you do well by your customer they tend to be pretty reasonable about paying a fair price for digital and physical products.Plus now that Patreon and crowdfunding are a thing there are ways of getting enough revenue to cover costs and create a profit upfront. Unlike the traditional creator-publisher-distributor-store-customer model where piracy would devastate the links along this chain.
JoeNuttall wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:For clarification, the stuff on my blog is available for free because I didn't think it would make a lot of money anyway (it never did in the first place), and with money taken out of the equation I thought that it would be easier to persuade authors to allow the stuff to be published (as I'm not taking a cut). The alternative I considered was all money going to charity. It doesn't preclude any author deciding later on for it to be reprinted in hard copy, or moved to a pay-what-you-want pdf site if there was ever enough interest.
mbassoc2003 wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:It just happened to be a convenient thread to ask a published author directly about his experience with PDFs and his view on the issues surrounding digital media and IP protection. Didn’t mean to hijack your thread. Certainly didn’t meant to imply anything or cast aspersions. Love the work you are doing. It’s great.
JoeNuttall wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:Part V is now up - whereas Part IV was an omnibus of the three parts of P'teth Tower, this is the original three separate parts as they appeared in Trollcrusher.In particular it includes some parts of the subzine Aryxia, and has an early use of Ability Checks.
sauromatian wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:This is interesting, because it describes a sort of popular folk practice which wouldn't have official recognition until AD&D 2e. In the OD&D/AD&D rules written by Gygax, the six ability scores are never used directly in the game, but lead to the numbers which are. Before 2e, rolling against an ability score is something mentioned frequently in Judges Guild publications, a little less frequently in Dragon magazine articles, & occasionally in TSR modules. I must have overlooked or forgotten where it's prescribed in 1981's B/X rulebooks - does anyone remember where it might be?
JoeNuttall wrote in Original Scenarios Resurrected:It's on page B60 under "There's always a chance". I'm not aware that it appears in any TSR publication prior to this.
