My meger company supports Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved
I would love to one day let one of our writers do a
4E if they wished too, but alas that will never happen with
GSL until it is changed for the better.
Mr. Ryan brings up a very good point and one I remember from the seminar about it,
WotC wants a bar to enter to stop a glut of bad products from damaging the brand, I personally think that is like trying to fight the last war.
However, Nothing would have stopped a "certain company" that thank heavens is no longer in bussiness from publishing a great deal of bad material even if the
GSL had been in place as is, because even when they made mistakes they refused to acknowledge the mistakes and never corrected them.
Other much better than that publisher produced better products (take Creature Collection I and compare it to Creature Colleciton III), but sold less copies becuase of competition and because of the readers who got burned on bad products from places like this "certain company".
Here is the think about Open Source, the best products need to become "Official" and be recognized as "Official" this will bring greater support to the market, as the best products are recognized by the only "Official" authority on DnD.
An Example of this would be the 3.5 version of Unearthed Arcana, however
IMHO, the authors should never have been allowed to promote thier own material the best of the industry should have been culled by editors and then presented in a single book, and added to the "Official D&D"
In this manner
WotC reaps the rewards of other people hard work, who reaped it from
WotC's hard work. You can very rarely stop crappy products if your not going to police content which is very expensive and something
WotC is never going to want to do. You can however recognize and reward quality which encourages others to strive for the same.
I have seen Neverwinter Nights I do this with thier open sources as has Warcraft III.
WotC has always failed to prop up
3PP for excellent work in support of D&D.
Sorry if that was Rantish
I hope to see the new
GSL and I hope the changes are all positive ones.
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