Green Ronin not signing GSL (Forked Thread: Doing the GSL. Who?)

[Grimstaff]

Yep. Same here. Not too surprising considering the GSL actually.

Do you think Necro should follow suit?

 

[DandD]

Let me tell you something, even now I have no quote from anybody nor any insider-information about the weapons of mass destruction fiasco. Bottom line, you have to read between the lines to understand how people think, if you are waiting for direct confirmation by word of mouth or press release you better sit down, because if you are standing sooner or later you will grow tired.

So you have no proof.

 

[DaveMage]

If I counted correctly, Green Ronin has released less than 10 products for generic D&D (d20) over the last 2.5 years (and two of those were card decks), so I don't think this decision is really that big a blow to "generic" 4E fans anyway.

Nothing wrong with them following their muse....

 

[Nymrohd]

I find the GSL as a license that cannot be approached without a good measure of goodwill. And you simply cannot do business on goodwill alone. Publishers actually live through this work and they cannot afford to sign off their IPs to a frivolous license.

 

[Grimstaff]

If I counted correctly, Green Ronin has released less than 10 products for generic D&D (d20) over the last 2.5 years (and two of those were card decks), so I don't think this decision is really that big a blow to "generic" 4E fans anyway.

Nothing wrong with them following their muse....

Very true.

GR's early 3E releases were pioneering, to say the least, and showed off alot of what the new system was capable of with its emphasis on swashbuckling and character development. Its too bad they wont be doing the same with 4E, but it is what it is.

Goodman's 4E Punjar stuff seems very similar in tone to Freeport, I wonder if they had some advance knowledge of GR's decision?

 

[mangamuscle]

So you have no proof.

Nope, nor I have the will or the money to go to Irak to find out myself; are you going to tell that on that grounds you STILL beleive in all that weapons of mass destruction nonsense?

 

[Grimstaff]

Nope, nor I have the will or the money to go to Irak to find out myself; are you going to tell that on that grounds you STILL beleive in all that weapons of mass destruction nonsense?

I "beleive" you need a better metaphor.

 

[CaptainChaos]

Goodman's 4E Punjar stuff seems very similar in tone to Freeport, I wonder if they had some advance knowledge of GR's decision?

Well, Freeport itself is in the DCC world (Aerth is it?). Goodman even published an adventure called Shadows in Freeport.

Makes me wonder if Goodman Games could do a licensed 4E Freeport Companion.

 

[mangamuscle]

Now if only they'd produce some 4E products using only copyright law.

That depends if they have a crystal ball to know if WotC will not sue them until they have no money or will to pay for lawyers like TSR did in the good all days. Remember, Hasbro (like any big company with an IP portfolio) has on their payroll lawyers happy to sue anybody since that is proof they are needed at the company. On the other side you have small companies like GR that either asked a close friend or had to pay a lawyer just to make sure they undestood fully the GSL. With such posibilities looming on the horizon the will to support a new game system with suplements grows quite dim I would say.

 

[Paradigm]

Oh for goodness sakes. It's not like they had any real choice.

I would also ask how he has a better grasp of Green Ronin's customer base than Green Ronin.