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This poll is going to be used to help gauge how our community feels about allowing material beyond the limits of the System Reference Document. Hopefully everyone's familiar with the termonology, so here's just a brief description...
System Reference Document - This is the most balanced and public material to allow at our messageboard "table." Basically, it's requisite. We also consider anything in the core rulebooks to be in this category, because the core is necessary to really play 3.5e.
Limited Open Game License - This means that we can add extra concepts from Open Game sources to our setting. This would include, for instance, the craft points system on page 97 of Unearthed Arcanna. This is a possible solution to our "item creation" problems, and although it will cause some people to make necessary changes to their characters, it could work out.
Wizards "Official" non FR Materials - If your voting for this, it means that your willing to approve a blanket of material that won't necessarily be available to every player. We can always provide the information on a person to person basis as necessary (and characters would all be required to have full special ability descriptions on their records). As a start, we would accept the minis handbook and the complete series. The monster books (draconomicon and the undead book coming out in october) would be likely cannidates to be accepted later. Book of Vile Darkness and Book of Exalted Deeds might recieve consideration, though they are both less likely than the above.
Wizards "Official" setting specifics - Eberon, Forgotten Realms. Products like Underdark and Unapproachable East contain information that isn't entirely setting specific (like items, creatures, etc.) could be borrowed up.
Third Party Material - This means we would give limited approval to third party books. This has a whole subset that would need to be polled over on a case by case basis.
Last edited by Creamsteak; 12th April 2004 at 02:40 AM..
i voted 'House Rules and Submissions' presuming it included all above categories. However I recommend only up to 3rd party publications as a standby with 'Houserules' to fit some non-core material.
For instance I personally love the Courtier class from Rokugan. However some aspects of it might require houseruling to fit into LEW.
It goes with out saying that you would provide a thread for the non-core material that has been approved for use and include all changes to make fits, yes?
I voted for SDR only. Basically because it means that everyone is one the same page, and has access to the same resourses. LEW Homebrew material could be added, because this would also be available to everyone. I suppose that my impression of LEW was that it would be all internally self contained. A kind of level creation field.
I voted for SDR only. Basically because it means that everyone is one the same page, and has access to the same resourses. LEW Homebrew material could be added, because this would also be available to everyone. I suppose that my impression of LEW was that it would be all internally self contained. A kind of level creation field.
I would think that as long as there are no copyright issues involved, we'd be able to post (or post links to, if the material is on the web) anything we decided to use. So we can use OGL as well as homebrew and still have everyone "on the same page". But I agree with you, we shouldn't use anything the details of which we can't conveniently disseminate.
I threw in my two cents for SRD only and LEW Homebrew. I almost chose SRD only, but think it could be cool to make PrCs and Domains as we did for the gods. I think, while an exercise of creativity, it could make it more difficult for players and GMs if Homebrew material dominates... as it stands with no deviations from the SRD, anyone can come here cold and GM or play... that's a big advantage in my book.
The balance is between keeping the interest of 'old' players/GMs who might be tired of the SRD while still being attractive to 'new' players/GMs who may be turned off by overwhelming amounts of supplemental rules - even Homebrewed ones.
I should also like to point out that I think Homebrew rules shouldn'tneccessarily be an umbrella to publish other non-SRD materials because eventually we'd have as big a hodge-podge mess as if we admitted any rules at all.
Alright, heres the breakdown of the three that I think are most accepted. I think this gives us a flat decision that we should allow approved open game content and homebrew creations. We need to speed up the process of approving content, and also to organize the content so that it can be made readily available. The first bit of OGL we will add will probably be the Craft rules covered in Unearthed Arcanna.
The WotC content is a little bit more speculative. Since slightly over 50% of the 22 voters are ok with it, it might be accepted, but I want to make sure it doesn't offend people too much if we do allow it in. I'm still curious about how we can go about displaying the character class information for other players, if we do accept this stuff, so that everyone is on an equal playing field and the DMs of characters don't have any problems.
There is a proposed solution to the above in the GD thread. I'm still thinking on it, and if anyone has an opinion, I'd like to know it.
Lastly, I'm going to try and create the Game Content sticky real quick.
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