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I was under the impression that the first book was designed to cover just beginning characters, and that they would release other books to cover later stages of your career and the other big races of the world -- basically more like Scion: Demigod than like the D&D corebooks.

Just to point out, I don't think the primary concern is that your ideas get stolen either. I'll re-post this: And one problem with a license like that is that even if/though WotC would never turn around and republish it, the mere fact that they can undermines your ability to sell the ideas...

Games Workshop can claim anything. In fact, I can too: "Anything Games Workshop publishes or has published belongs to ME!!" And, look, our claims are equally legally valid! Even though you couldn't publish your original writings based on their IP without their permission, they can't publish...

On ENWorld we already have an example of someone posting an extensive story and that story then going on to get published -- the third novel in the series is out right now. There is also a rather successful screenwriter who has posted extensive stories on ENWorld -- perhaps not the kind that...

Thanks folks. That's good to hear. I was just going by what was written in the books and on the SRD. I do think, though, that if a publisher were going to do something with SotC open content, they should get a written verification of that since, legally, they're liable for what's down there...

I wouldn't try a conversion -- but not because it would be impossible to do. Instead because when we start a 4e game the players (and me) are going to want to experiment and play around with the new options. We'll also want to see what it's like for a 1st level character in the new game, and...

I had thought that too, but it seems the Product Identity designation (found at the bottom) is: The bolded part refers to: Which, according to the license, would mean that any supplement you write couldn't refer to the stunt names in the core rules, their descriptions, equipment...

I think the basic ranger concept is pretty popular, but people have pretty disparate views of what they should look like. The ranger as written isn't as flexible in implementation as the rogue or fighter, so people keep coming up with variations.

The early d20 glut wouldn't have killed stores. Early d20 was a boom and stores were suddenly making surprisingly good money off RPGs again. After that leveled off to the baseline for RPG sales, some stores were too slow to see that coming and didn't slow their orders down. Many of the stores...

I've heard that, in solidarity, Kursk and Jozan will not be appearing in the Player's Handbook -- and Kursk will personally be cleaving all scabs.

That's what I was doing in starting this thread and pointing out the worry about forking. I think having one, standard OGL, even if it wasn't perfect, was great for the hobby. Being able to cross-pollinate between d20, Fudge/FATE, the Action! System, and the various d20 variants helped...

Since the 4e OGL and the original OGL are separate licenses it'll be sort of tricky dual-statting anyway. You might be able to include both licenses in a book and say one only applies to the material in the purple boxes (or whatever) which is your 3e stuff -- but there might be other details of...

That's my guess too -- and even if they didn't specifically restrict it, the limitations on what is considered open and so on might effectively do do. I figure stuff like DM Genie, PCGEN, and Hero Lab simply won't be able to work with 4e. Fantasy Grounds will have to revert to being more of a...

I think Ryan Dancey has said that while a game rule cannot be copyrighted, it's not so clear that a very specific and large collection of game rules that work together to form a system cannot be copyrighted. That sort of thing hasn't been tested. From a general perspective I agree. There are...

I think there's going to be market fragmentation too -- but probably not much at the fantasy end of d20. Very few people used non-WOTC OGL material anyway. Spycraft, M&M, Modern20 and whatever else will fill in the non-fantasy aspect and those sorts of old-d20 offshoots (or new inventions...

Or what Kevin Brennan said :p Hey, I was typing while he was posting!

I don't think that's the way it works. 3.5 was derivative of 3, but it wasn't open until they added the 3.5 material to the SRD. Likewise, 4e won't be open until it's material is declared open under some open gaming license. Someone might be able to argue that they can independently derive...

Much of the 4e SRD news seems reasonable or at least acceptable to me -- but my really big concern is that it seems like they're forking the OGL. It sounds like the 4e OGL will be something entirely new -- and since you can't place new restrictions on material released under the old OGL (I...

Sorry! And most definitely!

If you're wondering where that glut of awful stuff came from I'll point out that much of it came in a red hardcover -- red hardcovers you can still see clogging up the shelves of too-trusting game stores. FFE could have easily afforded the 5k and I'll bet they're far more responsible for...