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I love the work that has been done on this, and I can't wait to play. Reading the wiki and forums I'm not clear if L4W is ready for play yet? I know this sounds impatient, but how close is it to being ready? TIA

When accessing the wiki, you need to be logged in with a forum account. It would be nice to be able to view the wiki without being needed to be logged in so that, for example, you could post interesting wiki pages on link aggregation sites.

Hi Amaril, Thanks for that, that seemed to work. :) However, I do notice that this link is the feed for all the forums: is there anyway I can just get a feed for the news on the front page? TIA

The front page RSS feed doesn't seem to be working: I just get a blank page when I go to it directly in Firefox 3: feed://http//dev.enworld.org/forum/external.php?type=RSS2

An example? How do you mean? There are no examples, as no-one has actually created a computer game using the OGL. Let me clearer: the reason source code is compiled is that it is optimised, faster and performant. If you can't compile your game rules into optimised binary code, then it hits...

I'm not sure I understand your question? Yeah, umm, did you read my post? To be clear, my point was, why do WotC need to explictly mention that only they can license computer games, when the OGL should allow this? That's not the Software FAQ, but the general d20/OGL FAQ page. The Software FAQ...

See my reply to 2WS-Steve. But to elaborate, though it may be possible to create a game using SRD-derived rules while avoiding the arbitrary restrictions on software distribution (no binary distribution, human readable, etc), the performance and design issues might make it practically...

Those aren't computer games, but let me clearer, you can't distribute OGC as binary, which means that the kinds of optimisations you might get from compiling game rules for 3D-rendered OGL computer game would not be possible.

As ExileInParadise points out, the OGL absolutely does restrict several software uses, in particular, binary distribution. It may not do so explicitly, but it does do so indirectly and WotC are explicit about this in their Software FAQ.

As you mention, certain (restricted) software uses are allowed, but as the OGL stands there could never really be a True20 computer game, for example.

In the long-term it might be better if the OGL didn't arbitrarily exclude software altogether, and allowed people to use OGC without restriction.

I see the news item has now been posted, thanks so much for sorting that out. Is there any reason why it didn't take the first time I submitted the item? TIA

Ta, I appreciate it :)

I recently submitted the following news item, but it never get posted on the main site without any explanation: I appreciate it's not guaranteed that a news item will be published, but EN World has always posted news items for the Free RPG Community in the past and I wondered if there was some...