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Old 5th February 2008, 10:59 PM   #16 (permalink)
Nellisir
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Nellisir Goblin Sharpshooter (Lvl 2)
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Originally Posted by TerraDave
He also may be wrong on the ToH. If a new one was just published under the GSL, its not clear That past publication under the OGL would stop it. What I think preventing publishing under both licenses would stop would be something like an update of say True20 to include both 3rd and 4th ed mechanics.
The Tome of Horrors is a pretty unique case. I expect there will be a ban on importing material from the OGL to the GSL (and there will definately be a backwards ban), but I don't think that can affect material one holds the copyright to. So, -I- won't be able to update the TOH to 4e, but Necromancer might. It depends on the agreement they had with WotC. If they can go back to the original agreement, they should be all set. If they can't, and were expecting to update TOH material to the GSL via the OGL, they'll probably be out of luck.

In either case, I think they could update original monsters from TOH, TOH2, and TOH3 that they own (most of the entries in the latter two, I believe).
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