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...while at the same time being the most prolific beneficiary of derivative works. Funny that! Sigil, Very well put. I agree completely. A third solution to the problem you discuss would be to alter the license to protect the interest of the publishers, thus rewriting the rules of the...

I think that's a really great idea and I would like to see WotC consider something like this for 4e. It would remove all of the ambiguity and allow people to easily re-distribute any and all OGC available to them.

Hi Andy, Thanks for the clarification and I appreciate the time you've taken to respond. I see your point, but I think that in truth you don't really like the OGL. You prefer some other kind of license arrangement that doesn't currently exist and you are hoping people will adhere to that even...

The other choice would have been to not use OGC from other publishers in the book. If they want to use the license, they shouldn't try to exploit the parts they like and wiggle out of the parts they don't like.

So what is the distinction here? Is it that they only want it re-distributed if the re-distributor charges money for it? Is it that it can be a printed book or PDF but not a web site? Is it that they only want a certain percentage of it to be re-distributable by any one publisher and/or...

I have two points. The first is that if so-called ethical use of the OGL requires that you understand some kind of "spirit" that isn't in the word of the license and indeed only exists in the inner circles of some OGL mailing list for publishers or buried two years back on the message board of...

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Vemuz smiles as the shark is hauled out of the water. He approaches the sailor who harpooned it (ooc: the sailor's name?). "That was a worthy throw, sailor. You've a good arm." Vemuz watches the thrashing shark with amusement. "He'll settle down a bit soon, then take a knife to the back of...

This is just another ploy in Microsoft's drive to crush the open source movement. I've heard that Massachutsets is considering filing an anti-trust suit to block the acquisition. On another front, I've heard that SCO is claiming that it purchased the copyrights to OD&D fifteen years ago and is...

Would doing something like that be punishment enough in itself? In this case, for example, you've just wasted one of your few sorcerer spell slots on a spell that you'll probably never need again. I like this rule - with cheese weaseling included even! Your new magical powers awaken within...

Eh, if that's what makes the player happy, then I don't really care. :)

Hello Jasamcarl, What does winning and losing have to do with anything? We're just having a friendly conversation and talking about what we like and don't like in various editions of the game. There is no right and wrong answer. If 3e feels more video-gamish to someone else, but not to you...

1st Ed. AD&D was archaic and convoluted, and restricted more toward a certain cultural/literary milieu, and oddly I liked that. I spent time looking up two dozen variety of latin abbreviations, digging through a chart on the folkloric magical properties of herbs, an appendix detailing several...

Hi Janx. It sounds like maybe you should have brought Broadsides. It is the book best suited for more advanced and accurate tactical considerations and IMO is peerless for a Master and Commander type campaign. It includes all of the stuff you mentioned plus things like tacking into the wind...

Vemuz looks confidently over the railing at the shark. He addresses the sailor who is brandishing a harpoon. "You there sailor. I'll give you one shot at him. Two mugs of grog and a night off if you bring him in. Now stop waving that thing around like a bloody dog with a bone. Feet...

Even with automobile traffic, their range is spreading very quickly right now. I've heard a projection that they are eventually going to spread to as far north as Washington state and south canada on the west coast and also pretty far up the rest of the US. I remember it was within my lifetime...

Is it the plot hook of Midnight that you like, or the setting details? If the former, how about instead of bringing the players to Midnight, bringing Midnight to the players? An evil force (take your pick or make them alien invaders) takes over FR and cuts off the Astral plane using powerful...

Okay, that sounds about right to me. The only thing I'm leary of is the idea getting bogged down in unecessary details for the sake of verisimilitude. I don't think the setting would really benefit from a lot of concern over political complexity, economic coherence, and geographical accuracy...

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As far as making changes to the rules go, I say the fewer the better. First of all, the more ambitious you get, the less likely anything will ever materialize. Second, the more you change the rules, the more reasons you give people to find something they don't like. So, I say just use normal...