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That's good news! I hope that at least some of the better established publishers get the opportunity to release at Gencon, if only on a special license. I think seeing third party support at Gencon will help make the launch of 4e more successful.

A radio station that good you don't eat all at once: http://www.piratecatradio.com/ I wasn't sure if you saw it already.

However, if you haven't received the GSL, then you're free to say so -- thus, whenever all the people who are going to get a look at the GSL stop saying that they haven't yet received it, we'll know! :D

I don't think that's really an excuse. If the only news you've got is bad news then, yes, when you tell people the bad news they're going to get upset. And, yes, if you duck the question because you don't want people to get upset at your bad news, they're still going to be upset. An...

I should be more clear -- by "robust" I mean having the actual content of the D&D books/magazines and various software gadgets like the tabletop and character generator. As far as user-communities goes I think people will hang out where they always hung out and Gleemax won't have a significant...

While I'm increasingly pessimistic about the prospects for the GSL, I don't think that WotC will put in a new, harsher fan-site policy. They've been friendly in the past to fan-sites and I think everybody's pretty much of the opinion that fan-sites aren't real competition for WotC's books or...

Me too! Our ability to mold reality around us such that we actually choose what pizzas we buy truly makes us gods among men! Please join me in a league of evil mutants.

That's an argument I just don't understand. The fact that anyone can make a pizza, and, as a result, America is covered with Domino's shops producing crummy pizza -- most likely creating a far greater ratio of bad pizza to good pizza than the ratio of bad OGL books to good OGL books -- doesn't...

Best wishes and hope you start feeling better as soon as possible! And thanks for all your work!

Generally as used over the last several years the first reading of specifically declared is how it's interpreted. Companies make a point of specifically declaring their PI, or, if they intend to declare everything possible as PI, then they specifically point to that section and say they're...

Picked up the PDF version -- very nice! And now you'll get money from me for the print version too. Is that going to be hardcover? POD?

One problem with this debate, of course, is that it's very hard to point to any data or make any testable predictions. Prediction-wise, I can guarantee that no matter what way WotC goes with the GSL, and what the outcome is, that over the next year they'll say they made the right decision and...

I don't want to call anybody bad. White Wolf and GURPS hasn't released any of their home stuff as open content and I don't think they're bad. But I'm just drawing what I think are reasonable conclusions about the GSL. Companies don't tell their employees that they can't say anything unless...

Unfortunately, an inability to make a comment that re-assures us that - “We’re still vetting our final policy regarding open gaming. As soon as that process is complete, we’ll make an official announcement. Stay tuned for more information.” - does not mean that WotC is reconsidering the whole...

More significantly, if I were WotC and came back from the weekend and saw a 10-page thread in response to a rather short comment made on Friday, I'd very carefully go over my response with WotC legal, marketing, and various other people before releasing it into the wild.

Same here -- very cool.

Don't forget anime :D

That's true -- compare then to buying a BLU-Ray DVD. Though I think the more important budgetary consideration is time. I just don't have enough time to play it all.

This is definitely true. I figure I'd count as a core gamer, the kind of customer who buys RPG books regularly and we aren't all that common. But the common customer only buys a couple books anyway, and only WotC books -- so WotC isn't losing customers to them. In fact, hossrex says in the...

I agree with Pramas that it's a lot of debatable theory, and I'm sympathetic to the fact that big companies are nervous around anything that's debatable. But, like others have said, entertainment isn't a zero-sum game. It's not like buying a TV where if I choose a Magnavox, then Panasonic...