Cergorach said:
*sniffles*
Dana get off your high horse for once and stop badmouthing the competition.
Your free sample wasn't so hot either. The rules pages looked decent enough, but the gun pages are just horrible, does the concept of columns mean anything to you? If you take a look at page 15 of the free sample i see only 1 line on the entire page, that should be a big boo-boo in anyone's book. The images look like they where ripped from gun magazines and i can only start to contemplate the legal issues that entails. Gun page Angram 2000, the information these two pages have could easily be put on one page and you would still have room to spare, this is what we would call padding (ie. filling the book with extra pages without adding any content, only white space), 20% of the pages could be cut. Use of the D20 Brand Name, no OGC Liscence (OGL) or designation of OGC. Should i go on?
First make sure that you clean your own house before attacking others, especially when your a publisher!
I have no clue what the hell you're talking about.
First, the sample consists of 7 weapon systems, and the Agram 2000 isn't one of them. The included weapons are the Ares FMG, Astra Modello 400 pistol, GRADco Gun Knives, FN Herstal F2000, FN Herstal MAG-58/M240 GPMG, M9 Service Pistol, and the XM29 SABR/ OICW.
Second, the images are taken from manufacturer press pool photos, images they distribute openly and freely as a meams of promoting their weapons. A few are also from government sources, which are public domain, since the government files and holds no copyrights over anything it publishes.
Third, you miss the point of the format, so complaining about white space is pointless. One gun or family of guns per sheet of paper. The Agram 2000 is the only gun in its particular family. I'm not going to fall into the Monstrous Compendium trap of two different monsters on a single sheet of paper that happen to throw the ability to alphabetize or categorize everything by the time you get to volume 3. And as for two columns with the fluff text, trust me, with the distruptions caused by the photos and the block of data, it looks better in one column. You don't think I stoped with the first layout I tried, do you?
And lastly, the sample I'm looking at has the legal notices on pages 46-47. Right down to designation of D20 OGC (lacking in about 80% of the D20 material I've bought in the last 6 months), right down to the Action! System notices and OGC designation, right down to inclusion of the FUDGE copyright, trademark, and licensing notices.
I dunno what you have, but it didn't come off the RPGnow site, which is the only place the sampler is available.