Recent content by Zelgar

Use the KISS method - Keep It Simple (Stupid) For beginner players, don´t worry about a lot of the rules (e.g., Feats, AoO), just stick to the basics (e.g., combat, saving throws & skills) Make a lot of characters (at least 3 per PC) and let the players choose one. For the first game or so...

If you haven't got your tickets, I'd strongly advise getting to the Convention Center on Wednesday afternoon as 2006 Badge/Event Registration Hours begin onsite at Wednesday 5pm-9pm August 9th . This will keep you from having to waste most of Thursday morning getting your Badge. If the event...

wulf... a few of us are chatting right now, care to join in? Zelgar

If anyone is online right now, I would be interested in chatting....

Sorry for my delay in responding, but I left at 3:30 and a normal 1 hr drive turned into 2+ because of snow. Then the driveway... First, and foremost, I am NOT trying to destroy publishers or game designers. That has never been my intent, nor my goal in debating about the OGC and OGL. I have...

Nor does it mean that OGC cannot be distributed for free. The creator/publisher has lost all rights to control once he established the material as OGC and the OGL is followed. I also think it is interesting that there are publishers who reprint OGC material. If this was not profitable, why...

Isn't it true, that it's easier to claim 100% OGC and including all of your sources in Section 15 than separating out the Product Identity (PI)? Please don't get me wrong, but this entire OGC debate seems like someone donated some sports equipment and then gets mad if the equipment is later...

From my understanding of OGC, PI (Product Identity) and Trademarks from the OGL, they can. You would need to have permission of the other party to use the non OGC material. Zelgar

It seems like a lot of people are upset with my quote "If you didn't want the OGC to be free, they shouldn't of made it OGC." I would like to know how the decision was made to make X% of the resourse OGC? It seems to me, it would be easy for a publisher to state 100% of my material is OGC just...

If the creator didn't want the OGC to be free, they shouldn't of made it OGC. It is the creators decision, unless the material was based upon previous OGC material, to make material OGC or PI. Also, just because somebody post OGC for free does not mean that they do not value the work. If a...

I wonder, how many game designers and publishers had seriously considered what happened when they decided to make content OGC? Did you consider someone taking all of you work and making money without you getting anything in return? Isn't it better that people could be exposed to your work...

So the PHB, DMG and MM are worthless? Zelgar

Let's look at this in another way. Book X costs $40 when first printed. A year later, a PDF version is released online for $20. Has the value of the material in the book changed? Ok, now the OGC material is taken from the book and is put in another book or put on a Wiki. Has the value of...

I think that the OGL has always been a threat to designers and publishers. The problem is that a lot of them never realized the threat until too late. And if the response to the creation of a OGC Wiki is the elimination or greatly reduced production of new OGC, then I would not be surprised if...

I would evaluate what I was doing and try to limit the damage. Unfortunately, for game designers and publishers, if they begin to limit new OGC, they may become criticized by their consumers and lose revenue due to lost sales. This can become a vicious spiral where less and less OGC is...