Ltheb Silverfrond said:
Howdy Ltheb mate!
The GSL is up! I read through it, and am wondering what your take on it is. Is it a good thing for Eternity Publishing, or one more hoop to jump through?
Seems relatively straightforward.
At this juncture the only concern is that specific Demon and Devils are not allowed. Then again, I wasn't going to be using any of theirs in my adventures anyway - I suppose I could always have a "Minion of the Pit" or something like that if I wanted a Pit Fiend Minion.
One minor concern is the inability to reference existing specific Paragon Paths and Epic Destinies. But you don't need to mention them for NPCs, so no big deal.
One interesting point was a section (I don't remember which) that specifies (in legalese) that one cannot contradict the core rules. Which means, possibly, that if the core rules say you hit level 30 and retire, (which I don't know if they do) you are pretty S.O.L.
LOL. I have read through the GSL twice and theres nothing like that. I think you might be reading too much into it.
I'm not changing anything mechanical, simply adding to it - which is clearly allowed. I'm not changing a
Reference - all the references are listed in the new SRD. I'm not using any of their product identity*
*Though I wonder could you get written permission from WotC on specific cases to use parts of their product identity.
e.g. Say I wanted to use the Yuan-Ti in an adventure, or specifically refer to Tiamat.
Basically I don't see any problems though.
Best question to ask is now: What can we NOT do?
(Ironically not the question I thought we would be asking, [I thought we would be asking "what can we do?"] but an important one still)
We cannot use WotC Product Identity (naturally)
We cannot sell 3/3.5 versions of 4E Product Lines (as expected)
We cannot include existing MM stat blocks (though you can refer to them) but you could use modified versions of those stat blocks.