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Word! Clark Peterson, President of Necromancer Games, proud maker of "crappy third party products". Cause if that guy hates them, I want to be hated. :)

I confirmed that since posting. It released in November.

I just pulled out our first print product, the Crucible of Freya. It was released sometime between September of 2000 and January of 2001 (I want to say November). In the legal section for that module, it is clear that we had the final version of the OGL v1.0, but we were still using a draft of...

I have to concede this: 3 months prior to the 3E launch, we at least had a draft of the Player's Handbook. I still have mine somewhere. Its a photocopy. I spiral-bound it. :) I wish I could remember exatly how long before launch we had that stuff. It had to be some time since several of us had...

I;ll check some of my early products to see when they started to actually include the OGL 1.0. At launch of 3E we did NOT have a final OGL. That was the whole reason for the gentleperson's agreement.

I'm not trying to argue here, but since the gentleperson's agreement started as an email addressed to me from Ryan I think I have a pretty good grasp on how it started. At the very beginning, there was no SRD, there was a direction that you can use stuff from the books but just not XYZ. Then...

Nope. That isnt the problem. The plan was to get us press pdfs and to send updates if they make changes. So they werent waiting for hardback books. Nice one though Claudio! (nice to see you by the way!).

Griff, you raise a great question. Yes, back in the day at 3E launch there was a gentleperson's agreement. Please understand, we are lightyears ahead of that with 4E. In other words, in 3E, we didnt have an OGL and SRD formalized for over a YEAR after launch. We all worked off the books...

Dont feed the speculation please. That is only one of 100 different possibilities and it casts things in a negative gloom and doom sky is falling kind of light. I just dont think that is fair to Scott and Linae and to Wizards. I mean, yes, the license is delayed and no one likes that. But...

I try my best to keep on top of all the info on 4E. But I havent seen this, and I wonder if anyone knows. How much XP does it take to get those pregens from 1st to 2nd level? And more generally, just what do we know about XP in 4E? I know we have seen that XP for monsters is static, meaning...

Thanks Scroll! By the way, the principal authors and I just had a 1-1/2 hour phone conference this morning to discuss the overarching plot for the Iron Tower Adventure Path and the way we intend to deliver it. Great progress was made! Clark

I'm going 4E whenever it is available to me.

I'm not getting sucked into that :) Nice try. And you are smart enough to figure out on your own what the frustrations are for a publisher. Its pretty simple--we dont have the license yet or the content yet. But I am still 100% convinced that Wizards supports open gaming and that Scott and Co...

I happen to think HeroForge is way better than PCGen. I, for one, would pay for it. I really hope this winds up being allowed.

I really hope this works out. I am a HUGE fan and supporter of HeroForge. I use it for my own personal campaign. It is as important to me as d20srd.org. Clark

Its just normal business practice. As a lawyer, I have negotiated hundreds of transactions. Every one I can think of -- including all of my licenses as a publisher, with WW, Judge Guild, Paizo, etc-- has included a confidentiality clause and is private. Licenses arent public. The GSL is...

I'm not saying the current situation is my preference. I would rather have gotten the rules back in November or even January of this year. But the question was would I still be in now, and the answer is yes. Would I ask if they would reduce the fee or increase the window? Again, the answer is...

Please remember that even after the GSL is distributed for our review, we are all under NDAs so you likely wont hear anything for a while.

You dont have to pay until you get to see the license. There are tons of takers, just no license yet.

Guys, I know it is fun to speculate about things, but my gut tells me that there are all sorts of possibilities here. I dont know what is going to happen with the GSL. But I know this--Scott supports open gaming. He and I talked the other day and he cares about it. He gets it. He understands all...