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Hey, thanks...it's worked out well enough that now (a bit over 12 1/2 years after we met) we have a 21 month old son. Perhaps the B5 character was named after the fish? As in "drinks like a..." (ok, that's mean...sorry!) Aaron

I played in an underwater game once, had a locathah character for while. It gave me an excuse to make googly eyes at the woman who a couple years later became my wife. :) Aaron

Sorry, Chern, but he's right. You got robbed. By my understanding of the industry, you should be paying approximately 10% of the cover price. Admittedly, a smaller print run will cost you more per copy, but in this industry a 5000 copy run is huge for a newcomer, and there is no way a...

The Successful Marketing Plan: A Disciplined and Comprehensive Approach by Roman G. Hiebling, Jr. and Scott W. Cooper McGraw-Hill, (c) 2003, 544 pp., ISBN 0-07-139521-0 This book should be required reading for anyone considering starting a business, and used heavily by anyone operating one...

I suspect that also the *amount* that you drop the price by has an effect. Dana, that's a significant increase in sales volume. What's the typical percentage you drop? Aaron

I don't have Arcana Unearthed, so I don't know how close the Dragon article is to Monte's spell templates, but I do know that the Dragon didn't properly update Section 15 of the OGL. :( Aaron

I'm going to take an alternate guess here: It's entirely possible that someone started looking at this and realized that the d20 logo is inherently more valuable than the Dungeons and Dragons logo. Perhaps they then said "Holy crap! We need to control this a bit more!" More valuable? How...

I posted this at WotC, thought I'd post here, too: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Andy Smith We feel that Urban Arcan is within the guidelines. Maybe just within them. Like I said, this isn't something you can write...

(Topic fork...) I believe I have the 3.0 SRD sitting on my hard drive still. (As I'm sure that many reading this do.) Would it be of any interest or use to post it so that it doesn't just fade from view completely? Aaron

I must concur. As The Sigil pointed out, in order to claim something as PI it must fulfill a set of requirements, including ownership, and the term "d20" fulfills none of them. WotC owns "d20 System" and the d20 graphic logo as Trademarks, but does not own the term "d20" and therefore cannot...

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that WotC is claiming "d20 System" as a trademark, not "d20" by itself. If "d20" is not claimed as a trademark, then we can cleanly separate PI from trademark issues. If "d20" is claimed as a trademark, then they are indeed intertwined in a nasty...

Thank for for responding to that. I really didn't want to. As an aside regarding WotC's declaration of PI, I find it very interesting that many of the things they declare to be PI are not even listed in the 3.5 SRD. I also find it interesting that "slaad" is *not* PI, even though it is not in...

This strikes me as an excellent solution to this problem. While it would be very beneficial to WotC to have all publishers create material for only 3.5 and drop 3.0, there will certainly be some who will support the gamers who choose not to "upgrade" just yet. WotC cannot force you to use the...

Hi - If someone declares something to be Open Content as defined by the Open Gaming License, are they allowed to declare that same thing to be Product Identity at a later date? If so, then WotC can declare d20 to be PI and cause a major headache to all publishers - essentially you'd have to do...

Howdy - I'm Aaron Stanton (Stanton Industries), and yes, pretty inactive. Having a child along with major job changes pretty much put publishing on indefinite hold. Combined with the mistakes made in our first two products (rushed to press, so they didn't look very good, and hence didn't...

BESM d20 by Guardians of Order should be out soon, and I believe it is a de/re-constructed point based d20.

DeCSS != file sharing. The digital copyright act (millenium goes in there somewhere) wouldn't necessarily be affected by this ruling. DeCSS is decryption. This does not alter the dmca's (dcma?) constitutionality or lack thereof. Completely different debate. Aaron

I find this a fairly interesting discussion, but the thought that crosses my mind is that if all content contained in this online system (database) is truly OGC, then there's no real way to stop someone from snagging the entire thing and setting up their own system that the general public can...

The two companies are not in direct competition, although there is a close enough similarity in target audience that there might be a slim chance of confusion. Given that they don't have a very large overlap, however, there should be no problem. Also, two companies that incorporate in...

It would be very cool to include Planetary in this. I have no idea if you have negotiations underway for it, but if not...please at least consider it.