General RPG DiscussionDiscussion of all RPGs and non-system-specific topics. DM/GM/player issues, settings, etc. Rules discussion belongs in one the forums below.
The following books' open-game content is available, partially or completely, at the Wiki:
Creative Mountain Games:
Potent Portals - Mark Alexander Clover - Done
The Whispering Woodwind - Mark Alexander Clover - Done
DragonWing Games: Ink & Quill - Thomas Knauss - started
Spells and Magic (3.0) - Sam Witt, Joe Crow, Lee Hammock - Done
Fifth Element Games:
A Skill For Everything - Iain Fyffe - Done
Extraordinary Rangers - Iain Fyffe - Done
Monstrous Bloodlines - Iain Fyffe - Done
The Completist's Guide to Humanoid Characters - Iain Fyffe - Done
The Jester - Iain Fyffe - Done
Mongoose Publishing: Cities of Fantasy: Highthrone - City Above the Clouds - Alejandro Melchor - must be done manually
Cities of Fantasy:Skraag - City of Orcs - Wil Upchurch - Done
Cities of Fantasy:Stormhaven - City of a Thousand Seas - Patrick Younts - Done
Cities of Fantasy:Stonebridge - City of Illusion - Patrick Younts - Done Classic Play:Book of Dragons - Gareth Hanrahan - New
Classic Play:Book of the Planes - Gareth Hanrahan - Done
Feuerring - Gateway to Hell - Tom Knauss - Done
Monster Encyclopaedia 1 - Ravagers of the Realms - August Hahn, Gareth Hanrahan, Lizard - A-S Done
The Quintessential Aristocrat - Martin R. Thomas - Done
The Quintessential Barbarian - Robert Schwalb - Done
The Quintessential Barbarian II - Patrick Younts - Done
The Quintessential Bard - Shannon Kalvar - Done
The Quintessential Bard II - Alejandro Melchor - Done
The Quintessential Chaos Mage - Patrick Younts - Done
The Quintessential Cleric - Sam Witt - Done
The Quintessential Cleric II - Patrick Younts - Tables
The Quintessential Drow - Sam Witt - Done
The Quintessential Druid - Robin O. Duke - Done The Quintessential Druid II - Gareth Hanrahan - Partial
The Quintessential Dwarf - Sam Witt - Done The Quintessential Dwarf II - Alejandro Melchor - None
The Quintessential Elf - Alejandro Melchor - Done
The Quintessential Elf II - Shannon Kalvar - Edit/Tables The Quintessential Fighter - Matthew Sprange - must be done manually
The Quintessential Fighter II - Alejandro Melchor - Tables The Quintessential Gnome - Alejandro Melchor - Partial
The Quintessential Half-Orc - Alejandro Melchor - Done
The Quintessential Halfling - Gareth Hanrahan - Done
The Quintessential Human - Adrian Bott - Done
The Quintessential Kobold - Shannon Kalvar - Done
The Quintessential Paladin - Alejandro Melchor - Done
The Quintessential Sorcerer - Patrick Younts - Done
The Quintessential Wizard- Mike Mearls - Done
The Slayer's Guide to Demons - Alejandro Melchor - Done
Zahhak - Ashen Waste of the Abyss - Tom Knauss - Done
Paizo Publishing: Rise of the Runelords:Burnt Offerings - James Jacobs - New
Reality Deviant Publications:
Critical Feats - David Jarvis, Mark Gedak - Done
Planetouched Feats: Secrets of the Inner Planes - Mark Gedak,David Jarvis - Done
Template Booster: Blasphemous Terror - Mark Gedak - Done
A updated list of the products that are done, partial, or new is also always available here.
The site also includes a reviews section (most by Crothian), and various related pages (author bios, publisher profiles, and so on).
We are, as always, looking for more volunteers to review for the Grand OGL Wiki, donate content (publishers), help pull content, or edit and format the content. We're also trying to track down many of the authors in order to write an author profile on them. If you know how to contact authors we don't already have bios on - please let us know.
The Grand OGL Wiki is working with the publishers of the open game content in order to release pure-OGC to the public. We are always grateful for any publisher who would like to have his material extracted in this form, and promise to make every effort to extract it cleanly, with minimum hassle on his part, and while pointing the readers to his products and company. We are not interested in extracting material without the express blessing of the publisher.
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Last edited by Yair; 18th January 2009 at 08:57 AM..
Reason: update
Thanks for updating everyone Yair, I've been swamped with rl work and haven't been getting to the boards. Still much content is going up:
These can be moved to the done pile:
* Quintessential Bard (MGP),
* Spells and Magic (DW/Bas)
* Template Booster: Blasphemous Terror (RDP)
To peak inside the partials, this is what is up for each:
* Quintessential Drow (MGP) (character concepts, prestige classes, tricks of the trade, tools of the trade, feats, magic items)
* Quintessential Druid (MGP) (character concepts, prestige classes)
* Quintessential Dwarf (MGP) (character concepts + three on queue)
* Quintessential Elf (MGP) (character concepts, prestige classes, tricks of the trade, feats + the rest of the book on queue)
* Monster Encyclopaedia I (MGP) (A,B,C,D)
* Potent Portals (CMG) (all on queue)
Now as you can see, I have an oodle of things on queue that I need to get back to then I can get working on the Quint Clr II, Quint Drd II and reviews like this new one.
We now have author pages up for Mark Clover and Bret Boyd.
Thanks again to John, Mike, Alzrius, Yair, John and all other content pullers.
Thanks to the publishers that have supported this project.
Well, it looks like Mike has come through guns a blazing. In the past couple of days, he has extracted all the OGC from the Quintessential Elf and sent it my way. I talked with Matthew at Mongoose Publishing and he cleared additional fluff so now almost the entirety of The Quintessential Elf is live on the wiki for your use. Mike is now working on The Quintessential Cleric II: Advanced Tactics.
No sooner did I get Mike set-up on the Quint Elf then John Whamond contacted me about helping on the wiki, he's been hard at work pulling content from the Quintessential Dwarf and you should be able to see the start of some of his labours as well.
Joel is digging through the Monster Encyclopedia and has put up all the D monsters and most of the E monsters.
Spells and Magic from Bastion Press/Dragonwing Games is uploaded onto the wiki in its entirety. It turns out that Bret Boyd from "Behind the Spells" had done some work on this book as well so I contacted him to get an author profile. Thanks to Steve at Dragonwing Games for donating this content. We hope to continue to work with him. Speaking of publishers, Creative Mountain Games, donated Potent Portals. I'm getting the content checked over but it should be ready to be declared OGC later this week.
The game reviews page continues to expand. I've posted 20 or so of Crothian's reviews (just 211 more to go in this file he sent me) and I reviewed Goodman Game/Blackdyrge Publishing's first monster supplement for 4e called Critter Cacher 1: Big Bugs.
I was talking to Ed Healy today, he gave me a couple of suggestions for cross promotions to bring more users to the site. I'll let you know how they turn out.
What are we working on?
Mark - Quint Barbarian II (Multiclassing - Vexed by Tables), Quint Bard II
Joel - Monster Encyclopaedia , Updating Paizonains
Yair - Quint Druid, Updating EnWorld
Alzrius - Quint Drow
Mike - Quint Cleric II
John - Quint Dwarf
Do you have time to help?
Do you want to help the Grand OGL Wiki expand quicker?
Are you a publisher who has content to donate?
Do you have a game product you want reviewed?
Updated list to include new stuff being worked on -
Quintessential Bard II
Quintessential Barbarian II (moved)
Quintessential Cleric II
Moved to completed list -
Quintessential Elf
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I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to the people behind the Grand OGL Wiki. The amount of hard work you guys put into this is incredible!
I would also like to thank those publishers who have donated OGL content. In my mind they set a shining example for others to follow.
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Um, do any of the Mongoose "classic play" books happen to be in the hopper?
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Potent Portals is now complete, as is Quint. Bard II. kraag - City of Orcs is added to the list of projects being worked on, and there has been significant progress in the content of several of the books not yet completed.
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I received another email from John on Friday. He sent over the last of the material from the Quintessential Dwarf. So now if you need a dwarven character concepts, prestige classes, ale, feats, runecannons, devil dwarf subrace, runes, gods, mines, underdeep beasts and holds.
The Quintessential Drow (a mature title) added material on equipment, magic items, spells, fleshcrafting modifications, gravebinding, gods, spiders, cities and political schemes (Game of Bones).
So that two more races books written by Sam Witt up on the wiki now. (Anyone know how to reach him, I'd like to get an author profile).
Yair got to me on Friday as well finishing up the Quintessential Druid (he’s moving on to Quint Druid II now). If you need druid character concepts, prestige classes, hunting, feats, equipment, potion trees, planes of existence, spells, wildshape customization or circles.
Completed books so far include many Quintessentials (Aristocrat, Barbarian, Barbarian II, Bard, Bard II, Chaos Mage, Cleric, Drow, Druid, Dwarf and Elf) (Mongoose), Spells and Magic (Dragonwing), Potent Portals (Creative Mountain Games), The Whispering Woodwind (Creative Mountain Games), Blasphemous Terrors (Reality Deviants), Critical Feats (Reality Deviants).
Things we are working on:
(Joel) Monster Encyclopaedia [which seems to be popular with our site traffic], (Yair) Quint Druid II, (Mike) Quint Clr II, (Mark) Cities of Fantasy Series, updates to the site.
We are always looking for new author profiles, volunteers, product donations, products for review, or homebrew creations. If you want to help in any of these ways, please contact me gedakm@gmail.com and we’ll set things up.
We are always looking for new author profiles, volunteers, product donations, products for review, or homebrew creations. If you want to help in any of these ways, please contact me gedakm@gmail.com and we’ll set things up.
I imagine that Rocco (the editior in chief) should be contacted through that site before finalizing, though.
RC
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I imagine that Rocco (the editior in chief) should be contacted through that site before finalizing, though.
RC
I look at the OGC as a double edge sword regarding the magazine Dragon Roots. I did state in the magazine that the content in the magazine, with the exception of some trademarked or product identity, is Open Content. I view this as a personal use and not for open display in other publications otherwise, what is the point of selling a magazine if you can get it for free elsewhere.
That being said, I do also state that the material submitted by the authors is the property of the author and they can do what they want with it in the future so long as it is clearly stated that Dragon Roots has rights to the material as well and has the right to continue its use in the future.
If you want to use material from Dragon Roots Magazine I would prefer that you honor our new contract release that we are having our contributors sign. In it we ask that all material for use in a forum, other than for personal use, that is OGC or GSL or OGL, is not used for republication for a period of 1 year. After 1 year we would ask that only portions of the magazine, for instance an article, be used in a manner in which you are presenting and not the whole magazine. I think this balances the dilemma so the author can freely post his work on forums like this but gives us time to sell the magazine without fear of losing profits. We haven’t worked out all the details yet, for instance, we don’t have a problem with say Raven Crowking selling his work in issue #1 to another magazine or printing it in his own pdf before a year is up. Obviously though, if he made his own pdf with his article from Dragon Roots Magazine and posted it here, we wouldn’t be exactly happy as it would again defeat the idea of having it in the magazine. So this idea does need to be fleshed out a bit and we are working on it. I am not a lawyer, so there might be an easier way to go about saying it, but I haven’t figured it out yet.
Long story short though, the basic idea is that we would prefer to have a year without it being offered for free. Anything less and we feel that it prohibits sales and defeats the purpose of selling a magazine.
Any material used from Dragon Roots must contain the title and author of the articles name along with the issue number and year of print, company name, my name and our website, in at least a 10 point legible font to the English speaking public.
On a side note, even though issue #0 isn’t a year old I might be swayed into allowing the whole magazine for download for free here. It has been something I have been kicking around for a while anyway so people can check out the magazine. I am going to reformat my computer in the coming months and redo our website and when that happens I plan on offering Issue #0 as a free download. If you want, when that happens, you can post it on your forum if you want to.
I would be happy to answer any questions or to discuss how material is handled. Either write back here or send me a e-mail at dragonroots@comcast.net.
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No problem, we always work with publishers. Perhaps we can do something with you in the future.
It was my thought that, by including some material, Rocco might gain some benefit for viewers who then want the rest.
__________________ [A]ny good dungeon will have undiscovered treasures in areas that have been explored by the players, simply because it is impossible to expect that they will find every one of them.
RCFG - My free mostly-OGC OGL game! RCFG is intended to be a fusion between OS & NS playstyles, giving the advantages of SRD-based gaming coupled with quick character and adventure generation and an Old School feel.
I look at the OGC as a double edge sword regarding the magazine Dragon Roots. I did state in the magazine that the content in the magazine, with the exception of some trademarked or product identity, is Open Content. I view this as a personal use and not for open display in other publications otherwise, what is the point of selling a magazine if you can get it for free elsewhere.
It's fine to request it not be used. Just remember that no one has an obligation to honour your request. If you use the OGL, you have to realize that OGC is open to anyone else who uses the OGL.
The only way to protect content from not being disseminated is to not declare it OGC.
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It's fine to request it not be used. Just remember that no one has an obligation to honour your request. If you use the OGL, you have to realize that OGC is open to anyone else who uses the OGL.
The only way to protect content from not being disseminated is to not declare it OGC.
That's absolutely true. IMHO, OGC is a major bonus for any product, because it increases the value of that product. It also gives people who buy something else the chance to check the license at the back for products they might wish to buy.
The OGL-Wiki, though, is only using material that the publisher/author OKs.
RC
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RCFG - My free mostly-OGC OGL game! RCFG is intended to be a fusion between OS & NS playstyles, giving the advantages of SRD-based gaming coupled with quick character and adventure generation and an Old School feel.
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