Recent content by The Sigil

So much this. We saw a ton of this during the 3/3.5E era - the spirit of an "Open License" is opening things up, not doing everything possible to keep other people away from "your precious material" which you built entirely on something someone else decided to open up. So... um... I must...

I may choose to buy Daggerheart based on its SRD. Anyone planning on going into publishing shouldn't rely on the EN World community for legal counsel and shouldn't "wait for the dust to settle"; they should consult an intellectual property lawyer. The SRD may convince me that the Daggerheart...

Any license that can be unilaterally altered by the other party at any time is not really a license at all - and certainly not a reliable legal foundation upon which even a semi-professional publisher can rely. "DRP may modify or revise the License at any time at its sole discretion" makes this...

I think this working theory is probably on the right track.

We kind of had that in 1e. The introduction of "specialty priests" in 2e with access to spells that had formerly been exclusive to the Wizard started to blur those lines. In 3e, bards lost their own spell lists and joined the ranks of "arcane casters" and the druids lost theirs and got lumped in...

I'm probably in the minority here, but I hate the "psionicists as a spellcaster but not a spellcaster" paradigm. I've been pretty turned off by psionics because every time I see the mechanic (outside some parts of 1e) psionics feels like, "system for magic powers that bypass anti-magic because...

I usually think "Arrive AT" a location; however, I think "arrived to" feels okay if I follow it by a verb. I arrived AT the soup kitchen to serve hot meals. I arrived TO serve hot meals at the soup kitchen. (Yes, I am aware both "AT" and "TO" appear in both sentences above; I suspect the...

I'm going to speak only to US law here since that's the country I live in. What drives me crazy is that in the music industry, US lawmakers figured out years ago (thanks to player pianos) a little trick called "compulsory licensing." That is, once a song has been written, I am allowed to record...

That's a little simplistic, I think. If someone keeps views you find objectionable close to the vest, you choose to support them, and you later find out that they have objectionable views (or their views evolve over time from something you agree with to something you don't), I don't think that...

The problem is that the law doesn't move at the speed of technology. Lending libraries grew out of the "Doctrine of First Sale" which basically says once I have legally purchased a copy of a book (or other piece of art), I have the right to dispose of that copy in any way I please (except...

Agreed. Those laws could stand to be adjusted. But that is the timeline we'd both LIKE to live in. We have to deal with the timeline we DO live in where the laws have not yet been adjusted.

I don't disagree with you on how things SHOULD work. But the holy grail for business is "subscription model" (licensing) rather than "one shot sale" because it means (in theory) you work once then make money forever. Book publishers are doing the same thing. Since book publishers hold...

Except that's not how COPYRIGHT works. It's literally there in the name... the right to make copies. Buying a copy of a digital book does not give me the right to make copies of that book (with certain well-defined exceptions such as the right to create a backup copy for personal use, but that...

Perhaps this is kind of a tangent, but it has been my experience that in general, we seem to have some sort of sense when WE are the ones producing an item that "the economic value of an item should be tied to the amount of labor that went into producing it, including the sunk cost labor...

I'm no mod, this thread looks to me to be off to a bad start. So I'll try to get it off to a tangent. I've heard of Zweihander before but have never tried the system. Can you give me a brief summary of its strengths and weaknesses and whether the rules make it lean more toward a "tactical" or...